To work with somebody you love makes filming faster, more fun.

I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

I think life is short, and you can't spend time doing things just to be on set to reassure yourself that people are not going to forget about you.

I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.

People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

La Haine - first of all, it was the story of friendship. I was very close with Mathieu Kassovitz; he was somebody I met in the nights of Paris. And the hip-hop scene and all that... You know, it was very much about doing our own thing, and some of the subject matter was so close to what we knew and the people we were hanging out with.