Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten years ago, I would have done a different movie.

As a private person, professionally I am invisible.

That is one of the characteristics of fascism, the idea that the state can provide all of the answers for everyone.

For me, it's always difficult when a historical film claims to depict or represent a reality that none of us can know, that is always different. It's always the case. We never know what happened then. So my approach with the narrator is to question that, to leave that open, to underline the fact that this is uncertain.