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 tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere.

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.

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

I hope each day to have done 10 seconds of good work that they can use in the film. And Im always afraid I didnt get those 10 seconds.

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

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