Is the relationship between sisters inherently a sadomasochistic one?
It depends on whether the parents contribute to that or not. Our parents forced us to be together constantly. I had to be my sister’s best friend, and she had to be mine. There’s no escape valve in a relationship like that. On top of that, because of the small difference in our age, people outside the family were constantly mistaking us. That’s something that’s unbearable to you as a child. When we met in the fall of 2007, you mentioned a project that you were working on with Naomi Campbell called Bad Love, about a woman in a destructive relationship— Naomi, Naomi. Naomi’s a wonderful actress, but because she doesn’t speak French, we’d have to shoot the film in English. And it’s impossible to find funding to shoot a film [in France] in English unless you’re a very commercial director. That said, I’m a very stubborn filmmaker, and I haven’t given up hope. The only problem is that I’m getting older every day. I’ve read that Bad Love won’t be made because notorious con man Christophe Roca