[on the bad reviews Juste la fin du monde (2016) received at Cannes] You're always ready for people not liking your work. But I feel that there's a rather baffling misunderstanding. (...) If the guy who gives Creed (2015) five stars and "Fast and the Furious" four stars and-a-half is saying that Marion Cotillard is a bore in my movie, then it really is the end of the world. And you wonder what the fuck he's doing here. [2016]

[on Marion Cotillard] I have like a mega, mega crush on her. And I think we have a special connection too.

I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

Even the characters that seem so far away intellectually or socially, for me, when they speak, it will always be my words.

For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy. But pushed to the extreme. The edge. People are costumed. Its a disguise or something. For me, thats a sign of a loss of people believing in themselves, and of self-confidence.

[on directing oneself in a film] I don't want to be brash, but you just do it. It's not complicated. I love it. I sit down on the chair to do the scene, and then I get up, ask for the playback. And if it's bad it's bad. If it's good it's good. I won't hesitate a second if it's bad.