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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

"Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?"
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"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."

"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."

"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."

"When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris."

"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."

"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."
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