The financing of my films has always been international.

My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

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

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.

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.