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

I don't know if it's 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 blac…

- Mathieu Kassovitz

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

- Mathieu Kassovitz

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…

- Mathieu Kassovitz

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

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