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" I don't think I see the way bodies move in any special way. People say I do, but everybody moves. I don't see why all of a sudden I'm a specialist in the way bodies move. "

Claire Denis

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" Shoes have a meaning. "

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Meaning

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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Tiny

Small

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I'm a very sinister person. "