The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.