All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes.

I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.

This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors and dialogue and we don't care so much about the visual aspect. I love when you use all the elements at your disposal.

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

I think of a film as being like a toy train.

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

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.