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

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.

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.

Horsemeat is the most male meat you can think of.

The power that a president has in France is like the power of a king. In America, you know that his power is limited. Maybe because there used to be a king for centuries and now they're still behaving like they need a king.

Scope movies shown on TV letter-boxed are always the big budget movies.

It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex.