The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to come here to open the festival, you know you are going to be criticised. I have no problem with the fact that I expose myself and the movie, and it's normal that I can disagree with the way some people feel.

The telling of stories creates the real world.

When you're with real people, you don't have to be with virtual people.

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

People want real-life stories.