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, committed suicide. It was such a shock. The parents… — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
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… — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
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… — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
The first idea of Young and Beautiful was to have a young boy and to explore the sexuality of boys. But, I realized, with… — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
I didn't want to make Young and Beautiful as very dramatic movie . In a certain way, I wanted to do a girly film.… — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
I think, when you are the prostitute... you don't want to be coming. — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I spoke with psychoanalysts, they confirmed to me that the most neurotic relationship is always between mother and daughter. The cliché is to… — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
I think young people are aware, more than when I was young. There is such an obsession in the media of young people, about… — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
There is a kind of syndrome of girls who want to dirty themselves. They have the power. They control everything. — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
It was not easy when I was a teenager. But today, with the new technology, with the Internet, everybody can do prostitution with two… — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid. — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
Actually, for everybody, having sex the first time is never a good time. It's always a disaster. — Francois Ozon Copy Share Image
