I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.

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

Paris, though it's a very famous city, it's very small, so people always tell themselves, "We're gonna love each other in Paris."

There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.

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.

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

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.