When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.
I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.
The financing of my films has always been international.
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.