142 Quotes by Vincent Cassel

I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn’t accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

I’m a little angry in life.

The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That’s one of the points of art – to challenge your preconceptions.

I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think – I don’t know where it comes from – but when you’re doing violent movies, you’re closer to reality.

I’ve always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

Women? I’m still working on the subject. I haven’t finished my studies. I would say I’m so happy that they’re around. This is the salt and pepper of life. This is what makes me wake up in the morning – even more than work, really.

When you have a bunch of scripts that you have to read, the less you have, the better it is, because otherwise, everything is already planned and I think that’s a terrible feeling.

When somebody is talking to you about something terrible on set with lines, and you believe what he says, sometimes it gives a strange vibe, because you wonder when that person is talking if he’s talking about something that really happened to him and he’s using the character.

If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn’t be crazy kids in the world.