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" I don't want to be mysterious. "
Claire Denis
Want
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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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" '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 idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm not a very brave person. "
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" 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 think a film noir demands a beginning and an end. "
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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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Live
" Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same. "
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Just
Better
More
" I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture. "
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Innocent
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Women
" 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. "
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Dancing
People
Fast
" 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. "
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Simple
I Am
Cinema
" Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper. "
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Women
Life
Little Girls
" In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important. "
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Feel
Way
Respect
" Shoes have a meaning. "
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Shoes
Meaning
" 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? "
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Know
Love
Mother
" 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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Look
People
Think
" I didn't foresee my career. Things happen. "
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Career
Things Happen
Things
" 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. "
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Cinema
Sometimes
People
" I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me. "
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Me
Said
Film
" 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. "
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Family
Hotel
Always
" I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family. "
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Hand
Things
Other
" I listen to a lot of different kinds of music. "
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Kinds
Music
Different
" 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. "
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Hero
Influence
Mother
" When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten. "
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Lot
Listened
Doing
" I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on. "
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Always
Body
" 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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Mother
Great
" For some reason, I have always been interested in the stories of people who are exiled and who are deprived of rights. My main motive to make a film is to keep the society in mind and the hospitality adhered. "
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Society
Film
" You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion. "
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Life
France
Without