Mathieu Kassovitz Quotes

I have never spoken for anyone but myself.

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

Always take your own path. And do what feels right for you.

I think everyone should be their own individualized person.

I'm just trying to show people that I ain't gotta ride off no movement. I can ride off myself.

I'm very realistic about who's coming to my defense. I am my defense.

I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

That's all I ever wanted - to go out as myself and have the success or failure fall on me.

I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.

I think people know by now that I do my own writing.

You just gotta live your life and do it your way.

I do what I do. I live my life the way I've been living it.

In the era we came up in, you had to have your own thing.

I've always been like nah, I'm going to have it my way, that way, when I look out that window at the end of the day, I can say I did it my way, whether it's on a higher level, or a level where I can just maintain, I can still say I did it my way.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I don't need government to be successful.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.