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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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" 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. "

Claire Denis

Mind

Society

Film

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Claire Denis

Nothing

Music

" 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. "

" 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 you cannot make films without choosing everything. "

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

" '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. "

Claire Denis

End

Childhood

" I'm a very sinister person. "

" I don't want to be mysterious. "

Claire Denis

Want

Mysterious

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that. "

Claire Denis

Place

Live

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words. "

Claire Denis

Need

Sometimes

" Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour. "

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

Claire Denis

Said

Film

" The history of colonisation cannot disappear. "

" 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. "