It was like a dream to me to suddenly get into the market with that kind of movie, like La Haine. It actually created my identity as an actor, that thing.

I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

I really enjoy being an actor!

My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.

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

I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black or white. That, I think, is the most interesting thing in human nature. The fact that we have to do one thing and pretend something else. That’s when it becomes very interesting. If you can literally speak the way you feel, then it’s not interesting anymore. It’s when you have to lie that it becomes interesting.