It's just incredible. When you're French, coming from a non-English language country, you don't even dream about Oscar recognition or nominations. It's just beyond the dream. It's something very, very special and unique. It's the highest recognition any filmmaker could dream of.

You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask the actors to do it, or the dialogue.

My ambition with 'Redoubtable' was to make a film that would be aesthetically pleasing, charming, and touching.

When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even have an American distributor.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Digital communication is completely different from in-person, face-to-face conversations. One will give you surface insights, and the other really gives you depth.

I grew up in a time when we didn't have the Internet, and we didn't have smartphones and things like that.

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.