The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.