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 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.

Blood, especially fake, and guns, this is bullshit. It works in the movie, but on set it doesn't work for me.

I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.

I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

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.