Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.
I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.
It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.
You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or youll become empty.
In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.
I've had gay friends who grew up in small towns in France who had to lie for most of their lives, even to themselves. But eventually such lies become stronger than the people, and they have to face them.