The motion picture is the people's Art.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

Stars don't make movies. Movies make stars.

Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.

Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.