“Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.” Quote by Francois Ozon
“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 the period of Belle du Jour, it was a very strong decision to go into the profession, but now, if you need a little bit money, you go on a website and you say, "Can I have 50 dollars?" It's easy! I wanted to show these facilities.” TodayStrongEasyDecisionTechnologyInternetProfessionTeenagerVery StrongWebsiteNew Technology Author:Francois Ozon
“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 magazines and the fashion, all these kinds of things. They know that, and they use this power.” PeopleThinkingKindFashionObsession Author:Francois Ozon
“There is a kind of syndrome of girls who want to dirty themselves. They have the power. They control everything.” KindGirlDirty Author: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."” PeopleDoneVirginity Author:Francois Ozon
“Actually, for everybody, having sex the first time is never a good time. It's always a disaster.” First TimeDisasterGood Times Author: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, committed suicide. It was such a shock. The parents didn't understand. Nobody understood why he did that. Everybody was exploring his life, trying to understand what the problem was. Everybody had a feeling that this guy had the perfect life: he was beautiful, he was clever... but he did that. I had that in mind, about Isabelle in Young and Beautiful, for the parents to see adolescents like aliens.” TryingMindFeelingsProblemBeautifulGuyParentPerfectBoysMy FamilySuicideCommittedCleverAliensExploringFamily FriendsPerfect LifeYoung And Beautiful Author: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 think it's because of the father, the absence of the father.” ThinkingMotherFatherDaughterAbsenceNeurotic Author:Francois Ozon
“My first really big job was an advertorial for Italian Vogue. I cried on set because I didn't know what to do. That was two weeks after being in Milan for the very first time. I think I had one or two test shoots there.” ThinkingWeekFirst TimeItalianVogue Author:Amber Valletta
“I cut my hair short and it basically changed everything overnight. I was about 18 when I cut my hair off - the little pixie haircut. Nobody had short hair at the time. Literally overnight everything changed. I worked with Steven Meisel within a month and a half and I booked every show. Then I got a Vogue cover - my first Vogue - and that came out a few months later.” CuttingChangedHaircutsVogueShort Hair Author:Amber Valletta