Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes you convinced there is a story that is worthwhile?

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

Every photo, every 'ONCE' in time is also the beginning of a story starting 'once upon a time...' Every photo is the first frame of a movie.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.