33 Quotes by Tahar Rahim

I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.

When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

Im an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.

The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.

I knew Id have to go to Paris eventually, and I didnt want to be the provincial kid who just turns up and says, I want to act.