If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of... →
Jodie Foster
I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or... →
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
All the movies that I make in some ways have to be the story of my life. There are different chapters in my life.
I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe... →
I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to... →
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them.
Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.