I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

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

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.

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

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

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.

Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.

You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration.

The fact is there are many women who nod politely, even agree openly within their male-dominated often highly educated cultures, but vote their own minds.

I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.

When you stop and think about it, a smartphone is basically a whistle you can carry.

We just grew to trust each other [with Patti Smith] more and more over the years. Most of the time I didn't even have a movie camera.