"The day after I had my licence to drive I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour." "I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine." " Yeah, I think that there is something saying, I say the line, that revenge is a human right. I don't think that it's a human right, but it's a normal reaction." on Irreversible. "Oh, well you know, all European media is not the same. I'm sure that like in England, they can be much more bothering than in France, for example. In Paris, it's okay. We have very separate lives when we're working, working wise. I think that it's fine." on the mediatisation of his marriage with Bellucci. "I'm a little angry in life." "Until today I would have said, 'get into a plane and jump out with a parachute.' Now that I've done it, I would say 'make love for the last time hoping that it is my wife who is at my side.'" when asked what he would do if the world was to end in 5 minutes. [On Monica Bellucci]: Her best asset of actress - and woman too! - is not her beauty, but her intelligence. Her intelligence of people and of things. She is very perspicacious, very attentive with the others and has a great faculty to put them at ease. To work with her, I would say, to put besides any concept of couple, that it is as when I find Mathieu (Kassovitz): together, one goes more directly to essence. Plus, she is an incredible hard worker. She has a curiosity of cinema which is rare. She is moved by the directors, she is very listening... In general, I recognize it, I am interested more in the actors than in the actresses - is already well to recognize it! But her, she has something that few actresses have. A manner of exceeding reality, of making dream. I like to look at her playing...