At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

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.

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

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."

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!"