The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

I knew revenge like the ghost of an old friend." ~ #1001

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

The kiss of sun for pardon The song of the birds for mirth One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it.

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.

I didn't know about the Bond girl thing. I was approached very quickly, boom, boom, boom, it happened.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Getting to play the blues has been transcendant for me. I can't say if my finest hour is yet to come, you want to make a dent in this world, well I do anyway.