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" It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words. "
Claire Denis
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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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" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "
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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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" What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group. "
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" I'm not a very brave person. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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 only thing I find interesting is self-interest. "
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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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" Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour. "
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" I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is. "
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" I think you cannot make films without choosing everything. "
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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
" '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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" 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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" 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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Together
" I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on. "
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" I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end. "
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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
" 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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" I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film. "
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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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