Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

I win my awards at the box office.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.