I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time.

Being recognized by Hollywood is a dream true; it's really an amazing moment.

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.

Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.

If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting - and whether or not we leaders agree.

All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

Positive thinking isn't ignoring life's problems, it's understanding that Allah can make a way out for you if you sincerely try.

You cannot design better products by staying in the office.