I don't get many good offers. I like to follow the same kind of path I follow in France. If I don't feel the movie is very original or has a good amount of potential, I don't do it. In the films I've done I can feel I'm part of a specific universe, but those sorts of opportunities are quite rare.

There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.

You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.

A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.