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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?' "

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" My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "

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

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

" 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'm tiny. I'm small. "

" I hate the victimization of women, always. "

" 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 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. "

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

" My grandfather died when I was 12, but I remember the sorrow of my mother. Even now, she's an old lady, but when she speaks about her father, she looks young. A love like that is undefeated, you know? "

" I think you cannot make films without choosing everything. "

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

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

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

" You don't grow up naive in Africa. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Shoes have a meaning. "

" 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. "