Eric Cantona Quotations

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.

Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between fans and idols, it's also a love story, a story of a man who is depressed, who has problems in his relationship with his teenage step-children.

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 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.

An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.

The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.