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.

Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

The last film is always the most important.

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

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