"Ventura refused to wear make-up: a man does not wear make-up. He turned down a film with Jack Nicholson after the American had the terrible idea of offering him cocaine during lunch. He refused the part of a man who falls in love with a prostitute. He refused to work with Spielberg in Close Encounters of the Third Kind because he did not believe in extraterrestrials. He refused to kiss actresses even if the script required it (and this included Brigitte Bardot and Mireille Darc), out of respect for his wife and children. May Lino Ventura be reborn, an actor who was first and foremost an admirable man."