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" 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. "

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" 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 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 think you cannot make films without choosing everything. "

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

" I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end. "

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

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

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

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

" Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march. "

" I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" There seem to be more women producers than men. "

" I hate the victimization of women, always. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The history of colonisation cannot disappear. "

" I'm not rich. "

" My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it. "

" Shoes have a meaning. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "