I would be wary about working in the States because freedom is an important thing. I have made seven films and even on Alien Resurrection I had the freedom. I had to fight and struggle a bit but in the end I won out.

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

I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.

I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school I worked at a telephone company, which gave me the money to buy the basic equipment including the camera, the projector and the screen.

I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.

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.