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

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

I guess George Clooney would be a wonderful silent actor, and Leonardo DiCaprio is such a wonderful actor he certainly could do it.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.

I guess all the directors in France are influenced by Hitchcock, because he's the perfect visual director, in my eyes.

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.

Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

I make almost all the decisions on set and have to deal with all the financial aspects.

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.

Overworking leads to exhaustion.

Life follows a rhythm and we hold the drum.

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

If we don't take care of each other, who will? ... I don't want to ever say, 'I should've done something.'

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.

There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin.

I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.