People are more familiar with pictures of Jacques Mesrine that had been taken of him at the end of his life, when he was doing a lot of things with the media. So there's an iconic figure that people know, and I had to eventually get there; otherwise I guess the audience would have been disappointed. My only problem is that I'm a skinny guy, and it's very hard for me to put on weight.

Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.

Perfection is not just about control, it is also about letting go.

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

When you have a bunch of scripts that you have to read, the less you have, the better it is, because otherwise, everything is already planned and I think that's a terrible feeling.

Good guys need to be a little dirty otherwise they're just boring.

Neither of us are workaholics. I think the key thing is to accept that if you only exist through what you do, then you become what you do, and this is very wrong.