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" I'm not rich. "
Claire Denis
Rich
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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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" 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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" I listen to a lot of different kinds of music. "
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" I'm not a very brave person. "
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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 hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful. "
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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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" 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 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 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "
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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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" In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important. "
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" I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end. "
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" 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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" Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak. "
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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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" 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'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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