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" My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it. "
Claire Denis
Nothing
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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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" 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. "
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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'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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film. "
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" Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual. "
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" 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. "
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" The only thing I find interesting is self-interest. "
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" I'm tiny. I'm small. "
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" What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group. "
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" I don't remember being afraid of anything in making films. "
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" I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end. "
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" In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end. "
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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'm a very sinister person. "
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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 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. "
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