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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Claire Denis

Challenges

I Am

People

" I'm not a very brave person. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Claire Denis

Tiny

Small

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

Claire Denis

Lonely

Child

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

" 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. "

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

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

Claire Denis

Said

Film

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

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

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

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

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

" I'm a very sinister person. "

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

" Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Shoes have a meaning. "

Claire Denis

Shoes

Meaning

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There seem to be more women producers than men. "

Claire Denis

Men

Producers