I think you direct a movie just to express your own self.

I think you direct a movie just to express your own self.

When you go to Cannes, people are there to fight, to scream - like football, the World Cup. Once I was working on a movie, and then when I went to Cannes, I went there to whistle at all the other movies in competition. You go to help your friends and fight with your friends' enemies.

Movies dealing with social subjects in France become very paternalist. They want to teach lessons. They don't show poorness like a normal situation.

You feel touched by a movie in a good or bad way or you have a strong reaction to something that's totally artificial, to an imitation of life. But that imitation of life that you see on the screen can affect you almost as if it was real.

In France, like in most countries, the respect you receive depends on your class.

That's why workers in France like horsemeat, because it's like a male thing that makes you strong. Cow meat is a much more female meat.