In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.

It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.

I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries.

In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.

When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.

I'm very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had sketched because I felt it was too small.

There is a new philosophy for weapons: it's more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It's terrible. When you have a band of guys on the battlefield, if someone is dead, he's dead. If someone is injured then they have to take care of him, so six people are busy.