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.

Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I think some people's brains have more of a natural bent towards God than others.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.