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.

As an actor I've played a lot of gloomy, romantic leads and even though I might not want to recognize it, I actually really have a sense of humor.

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

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.

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

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.