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

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 want to thank three person: I want to thank Billy Wilder. I want to thank Billy Wilder. And I want to thank Billy Wilder.

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks ofmen. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can'tgrab onto.

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it.

Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

Change Won’t Happen Immediately, as Nigeria’s Problems Didn’t Start Overnight

Changes happen when we go against everything we're used to doing.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.