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.

In England they need a king, in Spain they need a king, in France there is no more king. But they consider the president as if he was a king.

That's why workers in France like horsemeat, because it's like a male thing that makes you strong. Cow meat is a much more female meat.

I don't want to give any lines to anybody because otherwise they come out like bricks from their mouths. The important thing is the meaning of the scene, not the words you use, and I prefer that you find your own words to express the scene.

Vengeance is a human right.

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.

When you start a movie... when it's a short, people don't care... but when it's a feature they want money.