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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. "

Claire Denis

Family

Hotel

Always

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" I'm a very sinister person. "

" I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on. "

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

" I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?' "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top. "

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Child

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "

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

" When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill someone, would you still love me?' My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I'm not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity. "

" What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not interested in making conclusions. I would never think about myself or anyone else, 'Well, this happened, this happened, this happened, so this must be the result.' It doesn't work like that with me. "

" 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. "

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

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Tiny

Small