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" I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a very brave person. "

" 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. "

" 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 think you cannot make films without choosing everything. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't think I see the way bodies move in any special way. People say I do, but everybody moves. I don't see why all of a sudden I'm a specialist in the way bodies move. "

" 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. "