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" In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important. "
Claire Denis
Feel
Way
Respect
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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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" I don't remember being afraid of anything in making films. "
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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
" You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion. "
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Without
" 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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Know
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You
" You don't grow up naive in Africa. "
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Up
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Grow
" I'm a very sinister person. "
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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
" 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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Said
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" I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them. "
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Like
Connecting
" 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. "
Claire Denis
Parents
Mother
Morning
" 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. "
Claire Denis
Simple
I Am
Cinema
" I'm not witty. "
Claire Denis
Witty
" 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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World
Business
Diamonds
" I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?' "
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Film
Africa
I Am
" I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family. "
Claire Denis
Hand
Things
Other
" 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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Special
Way
People
" My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it. "
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Nothing
About
Always
" Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march. "
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Poor
Africa
Continent
" 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. "
Claire Denis
Women
Life
Little Girls
" I think you cannot make films without choosing everything. "
Claire Denis
Think
You
Without
" 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. "
Claire Denis
Friends
Free
You
" I'm tiny. I'm small. "
Claire Denis
Tiny
Small
" 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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Landscape
History
Live
" I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family. "
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Life
Love
My Life
" 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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Innocent
World
Women
" 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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Your
Audience
Film
" I'm not a very brave person. "
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Very
Brave
Person
" 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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People
Work
Think
" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "
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