The first idea of Young and Beautiful was to have a young boy and to explore the sexuality of boys. But, I realized, with a boy doing prostitution, o….

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

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

It was not easy when I was a teenager. But today, with the new technology, with the Internet, everybody can do prostitution with two clicks. During t….

I didn't want to make Young and Beautiful as very dramatic movie . In a certain way, I wanted to do a girly film. I wanted to make something sweet, p….

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 ….

Actually, for everybody, having sex the first time is never a good time. It's always a disaster..

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

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

When I spoke with psychoanalysts, they confirmed to me that the most neurotic relationship is always between mother and daughter. The cliché is to th….

I had in mind a case close to my family, friends of my parents, who seemed to be the perfect bourgeois family, and a young boy, who when he was 17, c….

Awards are like hemorrhoids. Sooner or later every asshole gets one..

I do films to be behind the camera, not in front of the camera. I'm sure I say very intimate things about myself in all my films, but it's better to ….

I think young people are aware, more than when I was young. There is such an obsession in the media of young people, about their beauty. The magazine….