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

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

I think young people are aware, more than when I was young. There is such an obsession in the media of young people, about their beauty. The magazines and the fashion, all these kinds of things. They know that, and they use this power.

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.

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

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.

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