I Think It's Better To Be Involved

An Artist Is Someone With The Gift To Light Up A Dark Room.

If You Have Only One Passion In Life - Football - And You Pursue It To The Exclusion Of Everything Else, It Becomes Very Dangerous. When You Stop Doing This Activity It Is As Though You Are Dying. The Death Of That Activity Is A Death In Itself.

We Can Be Eaten By Techniques And Forget What We Have Inside Of Us.

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.

When I Was Banned For Nine Months I Had An Opportunity To Focus On Something Else And I Needed To Focus On Something Else. It's Who I Am. I Admire Miles Davis And Chet Baker A Lot And I Like This Instrument, So I Tried And I Learned And Practised For Two Months. But I Stopped After That.