Mathieu Kassovitz
Mathieu Kassovitz
Mathieu Kassovitzis a French director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and actor probably best known in Anglophone countries for his role as Nino Quincampoix in Amélie. Kassovitz is also the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth3 August 1967
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When a young man becomes a man it is a miracle. Indeed, I have become a man, I got married, I became a father. So I said yes to Miracle.
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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?
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When you talk about young kids living in the hood, everywhere in the world, American music, American dress, American attitude is really important.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.
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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.
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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.
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I know that there are police that are trying hard to do the right thing, and the film is also abouth the way that the police are treated by the state.
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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.