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" I'm tiny. I'm small. "
Claire Denis
Tiny
Small
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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. "
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" I'm a very sinister person. "
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" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "
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" My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it. "
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" When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten. "
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" I don't remember being afraid of anything in making films. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same. "
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" 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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" 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 didn't foresee my career. Things happen. "
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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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" It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words. "
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Sometimes
" I don't want to be mysterious. "
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" I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end. "
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" '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. "
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End
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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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Morning
" Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour. "
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" Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march. "
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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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" A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think. "
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" Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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