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

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.

People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go.

They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.

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

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.