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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I think you cannot make films without choosing everything. "

" The only thing I find interesting is self-interest. "

" 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. "

" Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march. "

" Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour. "

" 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. "

" You don't grow up naive in Africa. "

" 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. "

" I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me. "

" I'm a very sinister person. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it. "

" 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. "

" You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion. "

" 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. "

" It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words. "

" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "

" I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them. "

" I'm tiny. I'm small. "

" I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not witty. "

" I don't remember being afraid of anything in making films. "