I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

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.

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.

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

Increasingly, management’s role is not to organize work, but to direct passion and purpose.

Our passions are ourselves.

And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people

Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

The moment God put a dream in your heart, the moment the promise took root, God not only started it, but He set a completion date.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of feeling.

Finally, in 1954 [Ho Chi Minh] agreed to the Geneva Agreement, which divided the country temporarily into two zones, in the hope that national elections might unify the country under his leadership.