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" I'm not a very brave person. "
Claire Denis
Very
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them. "
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" Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same. "
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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 listen to a lot of different kinds of music. "
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" I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful. "
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" For some reason, I have always been interested in the stories of people who are exiled and who are deprived of rights. My main motive to make a film is to keep the society in mind and the hospitality adhered. "
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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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" 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. "
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" The only thing I find interesting is self-interest. "
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I Think
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" I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me. "
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" Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak. "
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Some
Sometimes
" The history of colonisation cannot disappear. "
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Cannot
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" 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. "
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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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People
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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. "
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