In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just R-rated in France. But when you meet French producers with a script like mine, they behave like the most fragile chickens in the world. They just tell you "Oh, no. You should cut this. You should cut that." And at the end you have been totally censored on the synopsis, and then on the script.

Make a movie that you can be proud of.

If I had to go through a tunnel ten years without making any movies like Bunuel, I don't mind, as long as I did one good movie.

Man is a moral being.

Scope movies shown on TV letter-boxed are always the big budget movies.

America in some ways is much more of a democracy then France. It is and it's not.

War, sometimes you have to go for it, you know?