I Think I Have A Sense Of

I'm Proud Of What I Achieved There, But A Life Built On Memories Is Not Much Of A Life.

An Artist In My Eyes, Is Someone Who Can Lighten Up A Dark Room. I Have Never And Will Never Find Difference Between The Pass From Pele To Carlos Alberto In The Final Of The World Cup In 1970 And The Poetry Of The Young Rimbaud, Who Stretches Cords From Steeple To Steeple And Garlands From Window To Window. There Is In Each Of These Human Manifestations An Expression Of Beauty Which Touches Us And Gives Us A Feeling Of Eternity.

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.

Football Lost Its Excitement For Me.

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.