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.

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.

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.

A problem-free life does not exist. If your life has no problems, you are not truly alive, and that’s a Big problem!

After a long time i saw my self in mirror and i find-out a berthing machine

I need no alibi, I did steal your heart.

I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race.

This race is not for the swift, but for the smart, for the one who knows himself as the winner

Memory - the very skin of life.

Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger