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

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

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.

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.

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