Mathieu Quotes & Sayings

How much did it hurt? It was like a million paper cuts on my heart. — Jennifer Mathieu

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

Alice smiled her wide smile. The crooked incisor smile. — Jennifer Mathieu

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

My songs always speak of love, that's the way I like them. — Mireille Mathieu

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined I'd be acting in movies. — Mathieu Amalric

It doesn't matter if you have a desperate heart when you have to sing about joy; it doesn't matter if you're scared to death when the lights go on. — Mireille Mathieu

I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive. — Mathieu Amalric

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

Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed. — W.A. Mathieu

In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing. — Mireille Mathieu

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

Denying your faith in the Lord was the ultimate no-no — Jennifer Mathieu

The body is something absolutely miraculous. It's amazing, the five senses. — Mathieu Amalric

That was back when all of us were students at Jefferson Elementary, and our quirks and strange rough edges hadn't fully formed yet — Jennifer Mathieu

It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved. — Mireille Mathieu

Brandon was like a God in Healy, and I guess I was like God's best friend. — Jennifer Mathieu

Her letters were bubbly and girlish. Her handwriting made her seem happier than she actually was. — Jennifer Mathieu

Life can be the worst bully in the world," Grandpa said and pointed a finger at Mathieu. "And you will stand up to that bully. — Francois Houle

There is one thing I've learned about people: they don't get that mean and nasty overnight. It's not human nature. But if you give people enough time, eventually they'll do the most heartbreaking stuff in the world. — Jennifer Mathieu

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor. — Mathieu Amalric

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

The Voice Chamber hatches a new and healthy experience of the vibrational universe — W.A. Mathieu

There are some things, like your eighth grade boyfriend kissing some other girl at a middle school dance, that are easy to forgive. And there are some things that are just unforgivable. — Jennifer Mathieu

Integrating the fullness of the human condition into one's spiritual practice is what leads to emotional sobriety. — Ingrid Mathieu

Music is the best way for me to say I love you. — Mireille Mathieu

It's pointless to go against digital because sooner or later you won't be able to do anything else. — Mathieu Demy

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality. — Mathieu Kerekou

There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise. — Mireille Mathieu

I've missed you, too," I say. "And I've missed your vocabulary." "Tremendously?" he says, smiling. — Jennifer Mathieu

It's like when we read The Diary of Anne Frank in seventh grade, and I had the sneaking suspicion that I would have been a Nazi back then because I wouldn't have had the guts to be anything else. Because I would have been too scared to not go along with the majority. Like, I would have been a passive sort of Nazi, but I still would have been a Nazi. I never said anything out loud, of course, but I remember reading that book in Ms. Peterson's class and everyone was all, "Oh, I would've helped Anne. I would have rebelled. I don't understand how people could have allowed this to happen, blah blah blah." I mean, — Jennifer Mathieu

Descendants of de Clieu's original plant were also proliferating in the region, in Haiti, Cuba, Costa Rica, and Venezuela. Ultimately, Brazil became the world's dominant coffee supplier, leaving Arabia far behind. — Tom Standage

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet. — Mathieu Kerekou

To listen is to be vulnerable. You allow something outside your body to come inside. To be open and impressionable, to hear everything, is dangerous. You can be damaged all too easily. — W.A. Mathieu

Cannes is a circus, so you have to have fun with it. Everything suddenly becomes funny. And the promotion of a movie - that's where you really need to be a good actor. You need to make journalists believe that what you're saying is just for them and you've never said it before, even when you're talking about the same film over and over again. — Mathieu Amalric

Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write. — Mathieu Amalric

Love in capital letters is important. It is impossible to live without love. You must have the feeling of being loved. All artists need love - from the audience, friends and relatives. But true and faithful friends are exceptionally rare. — Mireille Mathieu

The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience! — Mireille Mathieu

I'm always intrigued when you are travelling through a place and there is somebody who has lived there and done the same job for years. — Mathieu Amalric

I would like to solemnly reaffirm, that poverty is not a fatality. — Mathieu Kerekou

When you are clear about what you want to learn, you will find your teacher. The teacher is already there. The two of you will meet because you are looking for each other. — W.A. Mathieu

Each person needs different limits to set him or her free. Finding yours is what practice is all about. — W.A. Mathieu

There is the melancholy of Europe. There is the romantic malaise. Feeling sad is almost a form of deepness. — Mathieu Amalric

called Mathieu while he was in Paris, but had somehow failed to get around to it. "Okay. Well, thanks — Kevin Wignall

When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a director. — Mathieu Demy

Restrictions will set you free. — W.A. Mathieu

Well, you're free without wanting to be,' he explained, 'it just happens so, that's all. But Mathieu's freedom is based on reason.'
'I still don't understand,' said Lola, shaking her head.
'Well, he doesn't care a curse about his apartment: he lives there just as he would live anywhere else, and I've got the feeling that he doesn't care much about his girl. He stays with her because he must sleep with someone. His freedom isn't visible, it's inside him. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time. — Mireille Mathieu

I don't want to be a star! — Mathieu Amalric

I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well. — Mireille Mathieu

Sometimes with anger you can be much more dangerous than with skill. — Mathieu Amalric

If you love movies, then you love America. — Mathieu Amalric

In music, we can still record analog and then do the post production in digital. In film, sooner or later, we're not even going to be able to film because they won't be able to process. The labs won't exist anymore. You'll just have to do it with digital. — Mathieu Demy

Being the director is really something. It's a statement of something and you have to stand up for that. Okay, this is what I see. This is how I see the world. This is how I see cinema. And you have to be able to talk about that and explain it and be responsible. — Mathieu Demy

Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did 'Kings and Queen', had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and I was supposed to direct my own film! — Mathieu Amalric

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, it's silly. — Mathieu Amalric

My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I don't know why. — Mathieu Amalric

I had my little teenage craziness where I wanted to be a doctor, I admit. I have to confess at one point I considered even going to school. Hopefully, I went back on the right track being an artist. — Mathieu Demy

I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing]. — Mathieu Amalric

Who is happy with his appearance? I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain! — Mireille Mathieu

You need to be able to read music. For the last three parts you need to be able to play a keyboard instrument well enough to navigate at least most of the musical examples. It helps to have previously investigated the overtone series, or be ready to (the text helps you). Also, the more you are in the habit of listening to the music of the world's various cultures, the more insight you will bring to this study. — W.A. Mathieu

You know how there's this whole world that exists only to teenagers, and adults never know what's going on there? — Jennifer Mathieu

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

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

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

You're 100% responsible for your life. Stop whining and do something about it. — Mathieu Fortin

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

I see no need in taking part in forced adolescent social rituals that would do nothing but stir up emotions of dread for all involved. — Jennifer Mathieu