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" I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful. "

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" I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm tiny. I'm small. "

" I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it. "

" Growing up outside your own country makes you feel that you don't belong when you return, so you feel free to make friends with whomever you like. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me. "

" 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 history of colonisation cannot disappear. "

" What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group. "

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

" You don't grow up naive in Africa. "

" I don't want to be mysterious. "

" 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 hate the victimization of women, always. "

" 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 suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people. "

" I'm a very sinister person. "

" I'm not rich. "

" I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family. "

" '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. "

" 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. "