You can't escape from what you are.

I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.

When you have a bunch of scripts that you have to read, the less you have, the better it is, because otherwise, everything is already planned and I think that's a terrible feeling.

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'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

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

The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.