Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

In French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me."

The French movies that are promoted abroad are the ones that give a trendy, cultural, petit bourgeois, upper class image of France, but it's true that people who are poor in France are the same in New York or in India.

Societies have progressed much more during times of peace than during wars.

falling in love is the most natural thing in the world. Everybody has been through it, everybody has scars, everybody wants to restart falling in love.

When you go to Cannes, people are there to fight, to scream - like football, the World Cup. Once I was working on a movie, and then when I went to Cannes, I went there to whistle at all the other movies in competition. You go to help your friends and fight with your friends' enemies.