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

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

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

The first idea of Young and Beautiful was to have a young boy and to explore the sexuality of boys. But, I realized, with a boy doing prostitution, of course it has to deal with homosexuality. And I had a feeling it was too much for the film, you know, sexuality, prostitution, adolescence ... there were too many films for one film.

When I spoke with psychoanalysts, they confirmed to me that the most neurotic relationship is always between mother and daughter. The cliché is to think it's because of the father, the absence of the father.

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.

Awards are like hemorrhoids. Sooner or later every asshole gets one.