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" I didn't foresee my career. Things happen. "
Claire Denis
Career
Things Happen
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" In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I hate the victimization of women, always. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end. "
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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. "
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" I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film. "
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" We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot. "
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