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" I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end. "
Claire Denis
Beginning
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" A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think. "
Claire Denis
People
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You
" 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. "
Claire Denis
People
Work
Think
" Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual. "
Claire Denis
Everything
Job
Pizza
" I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film. "
Claire Denis
Long
Dying
Film
" 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
Me
Live
" 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. "
Claire Denis
Know
Experience
Born
" Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence. "
Claire Denis
Hero
Influence
Mother
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Claire Denis
World
Business
Diamonds
" 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. "
Claire Denis
Parents
Mother
Morning
" I don't want to be mysterious. "
Claire Denis
Want
Mysterious
" 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. "
Claire Denis
Know
Character
You
" 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. "
Claire Denis
Famous
Mother
Great
" '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
Me
End
Childhood
" 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. "
Claire Denis
Friends
Free
You
" I'm not rich. "
Claire Denis
Rich
" I listen to a lot of different kinds of music. "
Claire Denis
Kinds
Music
Different
" I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family. "
Claire Denis
Hand
Things
Other
" The only thing I find interesting is self-interest. "
Claire Denis
Only
Find
Self-Interest
" 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. "
Claire Denis
Your
Audience
Film
" 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. "
Claire Denis
Women
Life
Little Girls
" In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end. "
Claire Denis
Tragedy
Corruption
Strong
" I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is. "
Claire Denis
Brain
Brains
Think
" You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion. "
Claire Denis
Life
France
Without
" The history of colonisation cannot disappear. "
Claire Denis
Disappear
Cannot
History
" 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. "
Claire Denis
Special
Way
People
" My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it. "
Claire Denis
Nothing
About
Always
" I hate the victimization of women, always. "
Claire Denis
Victimization
Hate
Women
" 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. "
Claire Denis
Responsibility
Character
Street
" When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten. "
Claire Denis
Lot
Listened
Doing