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" A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It is heartrending for her, too. But it is not the same. "

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" When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten. "

" 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. "

" The only thing I find interesting is self-interest. "

" Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak. "

" I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me. "

" I'm not rich. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?' "

" In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important. "

" 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. "

" Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper. "

" You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion. "

" I'm not witty. "

" Because TV is mostly close up, it has to be fast. And because it has to be fast, you don't have time to explain completely, by a sequence shot, what's happening between people. So instead of experiencing what's happening, say, when a couple is dancing, dialogue is used to explain. "

" Growing up outside your own country makes you feel that you don't belong when you return, so you feel free to make friends with whomever you like. "

" I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is. "

" I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them. "

" 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. "

" I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful. "

" I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it. "

" 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. "

" Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march. "

" I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family. "

" I'm not a tacky person, I think. "

" What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group. "

" Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same. "

" I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people. "

" I listen to a lot of different kinds of music. "

" In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end. "