I want to thank three person: I want to thank Billy Wilder. I want to thank Billy Wilder. And I want to thank Billy Wilder.

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and architecture, so it's really graphic and visual. And the French were something else.

I think the writer is always the creator, because he's starting with nothing, but the actor comes in and gives flesh and blood.

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.