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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The history of colonisation cannot disappear. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm not a very brave person. "

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "