I initially studied literature [in France], and then I went to cinema school. I discovered the Cinematheque, and saw not only action movies and westerns, but also lots of serious movies.

More and more, money is becoming a religion.

We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world.

Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more riches for a few.

Technology is an extension of our hands and our feet, not our spirit.

We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions.

Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week. At the time, something like 400 million people went to the movies.

Essentially, filmmakers have to be free and not directed by power or politicians.

You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love.

No one can save us accept the Saviour.

How much better does being alive get then sitting beside a warm fire amidst a misty rainy morning.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.

There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.

There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue to be the most universally cherished aspiration of humankind.

Anybody who's mad should run for something.