The French Have Only Negative

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 Was Always Being Creative. I Could Never Have Played A Defensive Role Because I Would Have Been Forced To Destroy The Other Player's Creativity.

Often There Are Players Who Have Only Football As A Way Of Expressing Themselves And Never Develop Other Interests. And When They No Longer Play Football, They No Longer Do Anything; They No Longer Exist, Or Rather They Have The Sensation Of No Longer Existing.

You Need A Particular Talent Only To Want To Please. I Don't Have This Talent.

The Real Fans Of Football Come From The Working Class. Now They Cannot Afford To Come And Watch The Game.