In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just R-rated in France. But when you meet French producers with a script like mine, they behave like the most fragile chickens in the world. They just tell you "Oh, no. You should cut this. You should cut that." And at the end you have been totally censored on the synopsis, and then on the script.

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

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

I am not a police fan at all.

On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me.

When you see a movie, it's like you're attending a show of magic in which the magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat. You don't know how he did it, but a part of you is fascinated, or hypnotized, by what happened, another part of your brain says, "Oh, I want to do the same thing! I want to be that wielder of that magic. I want to be that magician on stage, and do the same thing to other people."

The negative has to be done on an A and B [roll] so you don't see the cuts, the splices on the frameline.