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.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

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

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

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

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.