War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

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

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

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.

For every Gospel action, there is an opposite and devious demonic reaction. We see this in the book of Acts. It appears in church history. We experience it in our personal journeys.

It was not the sorrow of the world that broke the heart of Christ, but its wickedness. He was equal to its sorrow ... He began by being the world's healer. But what broke him was its sin.

Two there shall be; no more, no less. One to embody the dark side, the other to crave it.

Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?

There's always a different energy when you're surrounded by a group of women creatives.

What [Prozac] does is completely annihilate the sexual drive, so the question of passion hardly arises.

If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text someone turns//to examine me/in the wrong color?

I'm a normal person. I have emotions.

Every organization, no matter who it is, just follow the money.

The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours.