Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

When I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all.

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

I'm Franco-Swiss. I've always been shuttling between these two worlds, never firmly planted in either one.

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.

Through most of my career I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

Hollywood was invented by hoodlums from central Europe. And today a Hollywood lawyer is not a hoodlum. He's a bureaucrat.