I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

Each time I hit a low point I learn the most. Failure is the best university.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end.

People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.