I'm very much into vengeance, in the way that if someone attacks you, you have to attack him twice if you want to survive.

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 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.

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.

People sometimes, they just stop because they see this scope movie. They say "oh, this is a real movie, this is not a TV movie."

I belong to the petit bourgoiusie somehow, because of my parents.

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