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" 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. "

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" It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film. "

" The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me. "

" 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. "

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" I'm tiny. I'm small. "

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Small

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

" 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'm not a very brave person. "

" I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's something in the landscape that's stronger than human civilisation. There's no agriculture, for example, and there are live volcanoes. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that. "

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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. "

" '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. "

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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. "

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

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" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "

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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?' "