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" I'm a very sinister person. "

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" I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people. "

" When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten. "

" 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 have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them. "

" 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. "

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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. "

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

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" 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 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. "

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" We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot. "

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

" I'm tiny. I'm small. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" There seem to be more women producers than men. "

" The history of colonisation cannot disappear. "

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" A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It is heartrending for her, too. But it is not the same. "

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