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

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

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

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.

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

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.

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.