Speaking with many young people, they act like their virginity is something you have to turn the page very quickly on. "It's done."

I think, when you are the prostitute... you don't want to be coming.

It's funny how people want to sometimes think that Young and Beautiful film is about all adolescents, but it's just the case of one girl. It doesn't mean all the adolescents are like that, of course.

Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.

There is a kind of syndrome of girls who want to dirty themselves. They have the power. They control everything.

When someone comes to you, let them feel like they are in your universe where they belong.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

All bad writers are in love with the epic.

I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.

I can only give my life in a way that makes me comfortable.

I am concerned about the growing problem of sexual abuse and exploitation of our children.

It's not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That's life. I have feelings.

To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. What I like is that image to be separate from private life, because celebrity damages private life.