You can do a good movie, or you can do a good movie that can help people to feel the idea of what it is like to live. It can be good in an artificial way; it can be also a good movie for your own existence. You don't know that when you do a movie. You don't know if you succeeded, which is the most difficult thing.

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

In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.

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.

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

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