Olivier Dahan

I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.

I don't read the critics.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.