I think American audiences like gangster movies. It's part of the culture.

It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every time.

To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.

I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

Blood, especially fake, and guns, this is bullshit. It works in the movie, but on set it doesn't work for me.

I didn't want to be part of that tradition of French cinema that wasn't really watched by the people of my age. I didn't really care to be in the last André Téchiné or Claude Chabrol movie, even though some of them are really interesting. For me, it was much more important to work with Mathieu Kassovitz or Gaspar Noé. It was for me a question of identity.

I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.