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

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.

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

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.

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

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."