- Credits his father, an electric engineer, for introducing him to cinema.
- Co-founded Radio Canut in 1977.
- Graduated in Contemporary History from Lumière University Lyon 2, owing his master degree to a thesis on the origins of the Positivism.
- Declined the offer of becoming director of the 'Cinémathèque Française' in 1999.
- He has a black belt in judo and taught the discipline himself.
- He earns EUR120,000 ($143,258) a year according to Variety [2018].
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