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" Shoes have a meaning. "
Claire Denis
Shoes
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" I listen to a lot of different kinds of music. "
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" I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful. "
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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 think you cannot make films without choosing everything. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" The history of colonisation cannot disappear. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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 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'm a very sinister person. "
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" 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. "
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Friends
Free
You
" 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 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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Live
" 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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Hand
Things
Other
" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "
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John
Sometimes
Like
" In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important. "
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Feel
Way
Respect
" 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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Love
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" You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion. "
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France
Without
" The only thing I find interesting is self-interest. "
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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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" I hate the victimization of women, always. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I'm tiny. I'm small. "
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