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" Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same. "

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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 think you cannot make films without choosing everything. "

" 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. "

" The history of colonisation cannot disappear. "

" I'm a very sinister person. "

" 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. "

" Shoes have a meaning. "

" In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important. "

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

" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think. "

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

" 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. "