Vincent Cassel Quotes

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

OSS 117 and maybe Un Balcon Sur La Mer directed by Nicole Garcia. It's a typical French movie with typical French themes with French actors, a French director.

I would tend to be drawn to independent cinema as a viewer, probably more than the big blockbuster.

The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes.

I would loathe to work on modern films.

It's funny, I started by making fake American movies, 'The Transporter' and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything was in English. But then afterwards, I was looking at real French movies like the Jacques Audiard movies.

Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.

I've been working a long time, and mostly European films.

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'

The 'boy next door' parts I get offered, I don't find interesting.

I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

I would love to do anything from a really gritty, interesting, indie type film, to that commercial, bigger stuff.

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'

I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

After I did 'Brooklyn,' I did about five or six violent films in one way or another, and not always with me being the bad guy, but something violent about it to keep the street cred up, really.

I have played characters where I haven't been absorbed - you know, what I call a typical film leading man role where you just have to look gorgeous and be attractive and charming. It bores me. I like a bit of dirt, a bit of sand in the oyster.

I tell you this: if I was in the house with those people in the Bergman flicks, I'd walk right out, much less pay $5 to see them.

I love independent film so much, and that's kind of where I made my mark.

I've never felt like a French actress.

I was always an admirer of French movies when I was young.