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"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."
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"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."
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"To do the writing, I have to have time to do research."
Time
"War scenes are less difficult than love scenes."
Love
"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."
Movies
"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."
Actor
"British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained."
Actor
"Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total."
Art
"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."
Movies
"When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris."
Movies
"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."
Movies
"If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction."
Elizabeth
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