If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient.

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance.