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.

My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

The financing of my films has always been international.

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

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.

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.