I Don't Care About The Past.

I Stopped Playing Football Because I'd Done As Much As I Could. I Needed Something Which Was Going To Excite Me As Much As Football Had Excited Me.

Sometimes In Life One Experiences An Emotion Which Is So Strong That It Is Difficult To Think, Or To Reason.

When You Arrive In England For Football It's A Paradise.

With My Two Brothers, Jean-marie And Joel, I Wrote A Two-page Story And Wanted To Make Some Kind Of Movie. We Met A French Production Company, Called Why Not?, And The First Name We Put On The List Was Ken Loach. It Was A Dream For All Of Us. So, We Tried And We Met Ken And Paul Laverty, His Writer, And They Read The Two Pages And Were Inspired By That To Do Something. Paul Had The Freedom To Do His Own Story - And He Wrote His Own Story, Which Is Better Than The One We'd Written.

In Football You Have An Adversary; In Cinema That Adversary Is Yourself.