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.

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.

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

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

Sometimes I have better relationships with my barber then with people who are into cinema from an upper class.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

Falling in love is when the presence of this person makes you release all kinds of substances in your brain, serotonins and endorphins. The moment you break up with that same person, you feel like a junkie who is not getting the drug anymore. Many times I've heard people say, "I'm in love with falling in love". You get all the best and all the worst in the same place.