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" 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. "
Claire Denis
Innocent
World
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" Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak. "
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" My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it. "
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" 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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" I don't remember being afraid of anything in making films. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end. "
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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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" I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful. "
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" I'm not rich. "
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" I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them. "
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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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" Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march. "
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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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Hero
Influence
Mother
" 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
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" I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top. "
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Am
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" I listen to a lot of different kinds of music. "
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Music
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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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" 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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" I hate the victimization of women, always. "
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Victimization
Hate
Women
" I don't want to be mysterious. "
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Want
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" Because TV is mostly close up, it has to be fast. And because it has to be fast, you don't have time to explain completely, by a sequence shot, what's happening between people. So instead of experiencing what's happening, say, when a couple is dancing, dialogue is used to explain. "
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Dancing
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" 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. "
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" I'm not a very brave person. "
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" I didn't foresee my career. Things happen. "
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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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" 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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