Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.

You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.