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

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

Most people feel aggressed by anything that is different from them.

I think that it's much brighter just to assume that you're an animal in the jungle and you have to survive.

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.

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.

From a simple, mammal perspective, you think you're going to make friends through the movie. You think, "Oh, this kind of humor that I play with will bring people that have a similar kind of humor. I'll make new friends," or something. You don't even think in terms of audience or of money.