I think that wars will never stop, it's just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides.

I think in life, people know what they want. They want to survive, they want to have a family. They want to procreate because it's in the genetic law.

The French movies that are promoted abroad are the ones that give a trendy, cultural, petit bourgeois, upper class image of France, but it's true that people who are poor in France are the same in New York or in India.

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

France is a very paternalistic society where people have to be introduced.

I felt attacked because people rejected me. They didn't say "we can give you money to do something else if you want," they just said "no, this movie cannot be done" and I said "okay, so I'll do it!"

I think it's more normal to make a movie dealing with love, sexual or not, than to make movies about bank robberies, which very rarely happen in real life. So I would say the problem is not what some people feel is normal, I would say the problem is why this whole industry is far more obsessed with filming scenes of dominance, guns, invasion.