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" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm a very sinister person. "

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

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

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

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

" I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person. "

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

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

" 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 witty. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "

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

" 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. "

" Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same. "

" My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "