I love acting and I still want to do it, but I’ve such an instinct for directing, it’s something that comes naturally to me. It’s why I’m here on this planet.

I make these little films. I’m just a working person. I just study people a little bit more. It’s more sociological, and it’s funny anyway – not that serious. It’s not like false humility. I just take it for what it is.

If Woody Allen called me, I’d be there straight away. Who wouldn’t? Truly.

Performing is the hardest thing. Even though I’ve done it for so many years, it’s still exposing yourself. You suddenly become extremely vulnerable when you’re on camera. You’re filmed and you’re being observed. It’s a bit of a violation each time.

I think it’s obsessions that a lot of people share, but they don’t dare to talk about openly.

Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it’s very, very tricky, very, very tricky.

I’m dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it’s a luxury. But time is money. That’s the reality.

Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It’s visual, it’s directing the actors, it’s telling a story. And people don’t always mention this part of directing, but it’s also knowing how to really edit something into something that makes sense.

I don’t know any woman in France who doesn’t talk to firemen and smile at them, because they’re always so sweet, and they’re wearing those tight pants. Even my dad looks at their ass when they walk down the street!

And I realized that directing actors is really important because that’s what ends up on screen.