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

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

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

" 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. "

" A career for me is something like building a bridge. You know, where to put the lifts. You have a plan. I have a blueprint for each film, but not for my life. "

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

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" 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. "

" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "

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