In France, it's very suspect when you have a success..

In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine..

If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they'r….

When I was a child, I had a ViewMaster, those red box glasses with little discs, so that you can see 3D images. They were my first steps in cinema. I….

I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school I worked at a telephone company, which gave me the mo….

I'm very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had sketched because I felt it was too sma….

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

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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

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

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 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 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….

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….

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….