France is an old country that needs to wake up.

When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.

Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And I always tell them, 'Well, maybe but I'm French. So it's going to be hard to be someone else.'

I never took any theater lessons. So when I started to do movies, I was 14.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just like, 'It's great.