You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or youll become empty.

Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.

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.

You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

I spent all my youth with horses.