I like some superhero movies, but I have to say that they all feel the same to me. I've seen them a million times. They're all the same movie.

In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.

I love the sharpness and political tone of RoboCop and I think that such a film is now urgently needed.

We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.

The relationship between fascism and robotics, for instance, it's very clear that it's going to become way more important as time goes by.

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you?

Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good.

I don't actually like blocking actors. I prefer giving actors freedom. They don't have to step on a precise mark with me. Instead of giving marks to the actors I like to give marks to the camera.

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

When question ariseHope or not to hopeAlways hope.

Let us be French as the Americans are English.

You never see girls running after engineers.

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

You can take on the world in a good suit.

The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I've never even gotten called in on one of those roles.

If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

I think that from the beginning of me making music, I always had it in my mind to combine things that I like to listen to in a way that I had never heard before.