I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
Foreign revenues are tremendously important, but foreign audiences are dying for American movies, not for films they could make themselves.
In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts.
Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.
I'm very happy in France making movies.
France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.
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.
French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.