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I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.

Cinema was my rite of passage.

I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.

I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate 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.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

I suppose movie theaters are the churches of the modern age, where we gather reverently to worship the tinsel gods of Hollywood.

In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.