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 …

- Francois Ozon

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…

- Francois Ozon

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…

- Francois Ozon

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

- Francois Ozon

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

- Francois Ozon

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

- Francois Ozon

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

- Francois Ozon

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

- Francois Ozon

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…

- Francois Ozon