Erotic movies - they don't even make it anymore. Even the erotic magazines don't really look like the ones you could find in the '70s. You have much more extreme iconography of what is sexy. It's very cold. There's nothing that links to real life.

In North America someone who doesn't know anybody, he can go... you can be respected for your own identity. It pushes your personality to become stronger.

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.

I think that people can fall in love with someone who is not of their own generation.

Filmmaking is just a very luxurious and efficient way of expressing yourself.

I'm brighter when I'm not drunk; when I'm drunk, I lose part of my IQ.

When you first time you fall in love, you think that is going to be your whole life project, loving someone. It burns your brain, you kind of become blind, the moment you see the person you're in love with you want to see that person again and again and again, kiss that person, hug that person. You turn blank to the rest of the world.