When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don't make it. So I tried to make it more refined. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show.

I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.