If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.

I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad.

There is no hell. There is only France.

They're now stuck in France somewhere. They were last tracked to Lyon.

I like France quite a lot, and I like Italy.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

One of the parts of this that I studied over in France when I went over on a governmental exchange, and I studied the whole nuclear waste issue.

Vive la France libre.