I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

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

Since I knew I was going to make a film that was purely about emotions, and I knew that I ran the risk of being accused of amnesia relating to the social film, to prevent this I decided it would be good to have characters who were on the margins of society. These are characters for whom love is really the only way to know that they're alive.

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

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

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