My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.
I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people.
You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people.
First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.
