I Think Life Is A

Even As A Footballer, I Was Always Being Creative.

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.

I Would Like To Compare Football And Cinema. I Think It's Very Similar. It's Two Games... Different Games. You Have To Work Very Hard And Find The Confidence To Enjoy It On The Pitch Or In The Film.

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.