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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" I think you cannot make films without choosing everything. "

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

" Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end. "

" I don't want to be mysterious. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" I'm not witty. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same. "

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

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

" 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. "