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"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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"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."
"It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable."
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"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
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"When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."
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