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

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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. "

" I didn't foresee my career. Things happen. "

" When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with companies from all over the world - but these companies don't share, really, their profits - this is called post-post-colonial. "

" A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think. "

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

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

" Filmmaking creates a sort of - trust, maybe. It has led me to a group of people I feel good with. We have something in common because of film, when otherwise we might have nothing. "

" The history of colonisation cannot disappear. "

" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "

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

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

" I'm not rich. "

" 'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France. "

" I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end. "

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

" I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family. "

" When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel. I never stop touching. "

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

" 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. "

" Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence. "

" I have very strong relationships with my actors when I'm shooting. When you love an actor's work, you always feel you have to go further, and you make several films together. One film just gives you time to get acquainted. "

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

" I don't remember being afraid of anything in making films. "

" I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top. "

" I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on. "

" 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. "

" Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour. "

" I'm a very sinister person. "