Since I knew I was going to make a film that was purely about emotions, and I knew that I ran the risk of being accused of amnesia relating to the social film, to prevent this I decided it would be good to have characters who were on the margins of society. These are characters for whom love is really the only way to know that they're alive.

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

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.

People always go to Paris for their honeymoon. It's like they think because the distances are closer, it's much warmer.

I think the moment I discovered I definitely wanted to act was when I saw a play alone by myself when I was fourteen. Maybe it was a Moliere play? I discovered the atmosphere of the theater, and I knew I wanted to be an actor.

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