Speaking with many young people, they act like their virginity is something you have to turn the page very quickly on. "It's done."

I think, when you are the prostitute... you don't want to be coming.

Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.

There is a kind of syndrome of girls who want to dirty themselves. They have the power. They control everything.

Actually, for everybody, having sex the first time is never a good time. It's always a disaster.

It was not easy when I was a teenager. But today, with the new technology, with the Internet, everybody can do prostitution with two clicks. During the period of Belle du Jour, it was a very strong decision to go into the profession, but now, if you need a little bit money, you go on a website and you say, "Can I have 50 dollars?" It's easy! I wanted to show these facilities.

It's funny how people want to sometimes think that Young and Beautiful film is about all adolescents, but it's just the case of one girl. It doesn't mean all the adolescents are like that, of course.