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."

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

I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere.

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."

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.

As an actor I've played a lot of gloomy, romantic leads and even though I might not want to recognize it, I actually really have a sense of humor.

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.