I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

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

I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why.

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

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 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.