I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode the world with it. What are w….

When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority..

I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject..

If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If….

In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say t….

This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors and dialogue and we don't care so much….

I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries..

When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn't always happen. All chi….

All day my mind drifts off into fantasies and little stupid jokes..

Each time, I try to find a family of interesting faces. I follow the tradition of films from the 40s - at this time, there were so many interesting f….

For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's somethin….

I would be wary about working in the States because freedom is an important thing. I have made seven films and even on Alien Resurrection I had the f….

There is a new philosophy for weapons: it's more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It's terrible. When you have a band of guys on the bat….

In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am al….

When critics love your film, you love critics. When they hate your film, you hate critics. It's the same everywhere, but maybe especially in France, ….

When you make something you like and audiences reject it, the experience can be painful. But I've discovered...that when you make something you aren'….

I like looking back at people's faces in the dark. I like noticing details that no one else sees. But I hate it in the old American movies when drive….

I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is….

I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life..

I hate to lose time on the set. On the set, you have to go at a good pace, because the clock is your master. For that reason, I have to know exactly ….

It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy..