I don't make the best movies in the world but at times I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'

I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema in that moment I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.

I like action movies even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

All my life I have loved and been inspired by French cinema and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.

I think cinema movies and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.