Because I'm Parisian, I wanted to show a Paris that I don't see at the movies, so I spent a lot of time looking for places that have never been filmed, for streets that have never been filmed because there's a thing about Paris, where it's kind of like a charming music box, this luminous cocoon, like those things that have fake snow in them that you turn upside down.

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.

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.

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.

I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.

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."