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Mathieu Kassovitz

French Director

Born: Aug 3, 1967

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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. Mathieu Kassovitz

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

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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. Mathieu Kassovitz

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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. Mathieu Kassovitz

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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. Mathieu Kassovitz

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