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

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

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.