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" I'm not witty. "
Claire Denis
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" I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it. "
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" You don't grow up naive in Africa. "
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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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" I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I hate the victimization of women, always. "
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" 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. "
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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 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The only thing I find interesting is self-interest. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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