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

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 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.

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.

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

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.