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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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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I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.
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Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
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The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.
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I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.
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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.
