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

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.

When somebody is talking to you about something terrible on set with lines, and you believe what he says, sometimes it gives a strange vibe, because you wonder when that person is talking if he's talking about something that really happened to him and he's using the character.

If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.

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

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.

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.