I'm sure you can even find ménage à trois in medieval tales.

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.

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.

There's something about Paris, people just don't have anything else do there but love each other.

I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere.

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

I wanted to be a lawyer. I love that job; I dont know why.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is always tragic.

Do it or not, but do.

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that.

I tend to read non-fiction.

Who are you in the silence between your thoughts?

Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.

We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

I would love to embody the attitude of Iggy Pop or Keith Richards: a ballsy mentality. Stylistically, I love Vivienne Westwood - those capes! I'm obsessed.

Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.