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.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

The financing of my films has always been international.

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.