To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

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.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

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

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 financing of my films has always been international.