There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

Because if I were gay, [and] I'm not gay yet — maybe one day — but if I were gay, I'd like to see movies where homosexuality isn't always a problem.

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"

There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."