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" I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family. "
Claire Denis
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" Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour. "
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" 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? "
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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. "
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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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" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "
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" You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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