Kassovitz Quotes

#1. We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.

Mathieu Kassovitz

#2. ... It would be hateful to refuse whatever she asks of me, one way or another, for she is so pure, so free of any earthly tie, and cares so little, but so marvelously, for life.

Andre Breton

#3. What you sow, you will reap What I sow, I will reap.

M.C. Mary Kom

#4. I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.

Mathieu Kassovitz

#5. Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Annie Besant

#6. When you have practiced drawing for a while ... take pains and pleasure in constantly copying the best works that you can find done by the hand of great masters.

Cennino Cennini

#7. Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

Mathieu Kassovitz

#8. In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem.

Mathieu Kassovitz

#9. Brought it back to her desk to go over her research for the next

Danielle Steel

#10. There's a fine line between self-preservation and mummification.

Mik Everett

#11. Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

Lysa TerKeurst

#12. It's good that they've seen it, but how can I be satisfied after working for two years making a film which I hope will make a difference, when the government sees the film and does nothing about it?

Mathieu Kassovitz

#13. It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Blaise Pascal

#14. The air which is so thin and unsubstantial gives birth to storms that nothing can resist.

Anonymous

#15. HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

Mathieu Kassovitz

#16. I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

Mathieu Kassovitz

#17. Home almost, at
least where words cut your lip & I spoke
you together & then back apart.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson

#18. They brought on someone who cost more than our stadium.

Brendan Rodgers

#19. But not as much as you do. I don't know what to tell you to make you understand. You're like sunlight to her. I'm the fucking lamp in the corner." He paused and shook his head. "No, screw that. You're the sun to her, while I'm a chandelier. Still beautiful, but one drastically outshines the other.

Tijan

#20. Well, a special screening was set up for government officials, so they didn't have to see the experience of going to see the film. They certainly aren't going to the projects to see for themselves the situation.

Mathieu Kassovitz

#21. Like anywhere, we had to make people understand that we were there with good intentions, and that we were there with respect. We started making contacts with the people in the neighborhood three months before shooting began, so that everyone involved was comfortable.

Mathieu Kassovitz

#22. I don't know if its really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen.

Mathieu Kassovitz

#23. There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

Alain Resnais

#24. I don't think there are as many usability issues as there are tactical or strategic decisions related to whether incorporating social networking into your site is going to help or hurt.

Steve Krug

#25. Faber's drawing-pencils;

Louisa May Alcott