What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?

I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.