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"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."
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"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."

"I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me."

"When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood."
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"When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris."

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

"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."

"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."

"The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope."
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