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.

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

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

The financing of my films has always been international.

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.

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

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.