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" A career for me is something like building a bridge. You know, where to put the lifts. You have a plan. I have a blueprint for each film, but not for my life. "
Claire Denis
My Life
You
Me
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" We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot. "
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" I don't know - music in film, for me, is not another part of a soundtrack; it is something that also helps to approach a character, to foresee the type of image - you see what I mean - it's like a part of the process. "
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" I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?' "
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" I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films. "
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" I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family. "
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" I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them. "
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" When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill someone, would you still love me?' My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I'm not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity. "
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" In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end. "
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" I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is. "
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" I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them. "
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" I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on. "
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Always
Body
" I'm not witty. "
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" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "
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Sometimes
Like
" In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important. "
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" My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it. "
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" I don't think I see the way bodies move in any special way. People say I do, but everybody moves. I don't see why all of a sudden I'm a specialist in the way bodies move. "
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Special
Way
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" The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film. "
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Audience
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" I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong. "
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" For some reason, I have always been interested in the stories of people who are exiled and who are deprived of rights. My main motive to make a film is to keep the society in mind and the hospitality adhered. "
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" My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather. "
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" What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not interested in making conclusions. I would never think about myself or anyone else, 'Well, this happened, this happened, this happened, so this must be the result.' It doesn't work like that with me. "
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" I hate family pressures and family responsibilities. I'm more comfortable as a stranger. I always imagined I could just live in a hotel. I'm afraid of family. "
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" Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual. "
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