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" 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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" Filmmaking creates a sort of - trust, maybe. It has led me to a group of people I feel good with. We have something in common because of film, when otherwise we might have nothing. "

" I'm not a tacky person, I think. "

" I hate the victimization of women, always. "

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

" A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It is heartrending for her, too. But it is not the same. "

" 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. "

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

" I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film. "

" 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. "

" I'm not witty. "

" I didn't foresee my career. Things happen. "

" 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 am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?' "

" I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family. "

" 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? "

" When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel. I never stop touching. "

" I listen to a lot of different kinds of music. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" '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. "

" I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is. "

" I'm not rich. "

" Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak. "