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.

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

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

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

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

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.

The financing of my films has always been international.