Mathieu Kassovitz Quotes
I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
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The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
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I was 13 - 14 when I first tasted stardom. In the summer holidays, my dad made me act in these films that went on to become superhits. I became a child star.
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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It is everybody's wish to work with Mani Ratnam.
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I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!
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Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation.
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You still waste time with those things, Lenù? We are flying over a ball of fire. The part that has cooled floats on lava. On that part we construct buildings, the bridges, and the streets, and every so often the lava comes out of Vesuvius or causes an earthquake that destroys everything. There are microbes everywhere that make us sick and die. There are wars. There is a poverty that makes us cruel. Every second something might happen that will cause you such suffering that you'll never have enough tears. And what are you doing? A theology course in which you struggle to understand what the Holy Spirit is? Forget it, it was the Devil who invented the world, not the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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At the end of the day, nobody cares how much you tried, what the deal was, or if you were a good guy or a bad guy.
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My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply every human defect; that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good.
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Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.
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I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.
