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.

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

Sometimes living is not so light and easy and you need a representation of life in front of you. It's a fake reorganization of reality. You start to feel, "I'm not so alone in the world because I can recognize exactly the same feelings."

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.

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

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