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

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

" 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 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. "

" '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. "

" The only thing I find interesting is self-interest. "

" 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. "

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

" Shoes have a meaning. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" I'm not witty. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think. "