I think life is a big game we play.
I don't think the world of football is so serious. It's important to have distance about things and about yourself. If we believe we are kings or gods, we become crazy. We all know it's a game and we all enjoy it together.
I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.
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.
I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.
I live to feel myself in danger.
I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.
Football lost its excitement for me.
I have a car but it's not important.
I always knew I had to work hard.
I don't care about the past.
When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.
I observe the world and the people surrounding me.
I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.
Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.
I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.
I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.
You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.
The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.
I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.
My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.
I don't know where my medals are.
On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.
Great businessmen are creators.
We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.
