When you do not have the dialogue to explain things, you will use everything to show and to tell the story. I think that this is what makes you believe that it is impeccable

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.

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.

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever

I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.

It was great. We knew we were going back when we finished the movie. It was such a big movie [Star Wars].

Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.

When you have children, you realise you can't plan anything. There's no Plan A, no Plan B. Life will happen and you will go with it.

When you, awareness, are mastered by the deepest that you know the truth of, then you are no longer awareness. You are oneness aware mastering your self and your life.

A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.

Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.

What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin.