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."

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.

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

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

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

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