Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the only medium where all one has to do is re-project these images so that one can see what has happened.

Me, I'm dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you have to watch out for...'

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.