In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

I admire actors for their infinite patience. That's why they need all those trailers and all their crowd of people who pamper them. But it is a drag to get up sometimes at 4:30 in the morning and get into makeup, and wait forever until they call you onto the set.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f- young girls. Juries want to f- young girls. Everyone wants to f- young girls!