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

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

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 knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.

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

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

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.