Mathieu Kassovitz Quotes

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.

I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

There is no document of civilization that is not simultaneously a document of barbarism.

You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word is one wing of silence, fire has its cold half. I love you in order to begin to love you, to start infinity again and never to stop loving you: that’s why I do not love you yet. I love you, and I do not love you, as if I held keys in my hand: to a future of joy- a wretched, muddled fate- My love has two lives, in order to love you. -Sonnet XLIV

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine.

Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him a disturbing fury. People, a lot them, don't understand fury. They understand anger and even hatred, but fury is one of those old words that have gone out of style. Jimmy Jim Bundrum understood it. It rode his shoulder like a parrot.

Love! Hate! Is there no third?

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.

People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.

I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things.

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

I learned that I was either crazy in love with you, or putting on the best performance of my life.' -Nora (PG 263)

If you're gonna take in the love, you've gotta take in the hate. Or at least recognize it.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

My only love sprung from my only hate.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.

If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.

Because you aren't who you think you are. You aren't what everyone else believes. You might have delivered countless deaths but you love more fiercely than anyone I've ever known.