What we're seeing, I think, is a drive toward becoming a low-cost supplier.

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - we are just parcels of meat, collections of atoms - we have a little flowering on Earth, and then we're gone.

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.