Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.
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 like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.
Sometimes living is not so light and easy and you need a representation of life in front of you. It's a fake reorganization of reality. You start to feel, "I'm not so alone in the world because I can recognize exactly the same feelings. "
Because I'm Parisian, I wanted to show a Paris that I don't see at the movies, so I spent a lot of time looking for places that have never been filmed, for streets that have never been filmed because there's a thing about Paris, where it's kind of like a charming music box, this luminous cocoon, like those things that have fake snow in them that you turn upside down.
I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.
Because if I were gay, [and] I'm not gay yet — maybe one day — but if I were gay, I'd like to see movies where homosexuality isn't always a problem.
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
Don’t call me a loser in front of my mom!
If your ideas are good they rise, and if they're a bit crap they sink.
We have to decide why terrorism is a new threat. There has always been terrorism.