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" 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. "

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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. "

Claire Denis

Know

Experience

Born

" I'm not a very brave person. "

" 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. "

" In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end. "

" 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. "

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

Claire Denis

Men

Producers

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

" 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 am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top. "

Claire Denis

Lonely

Child

" 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. "

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

Claire Denis

Just

Better

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Shoes have a meaning. "

Claire Denis

Shoes

Meaning

" I'm a very sinister person. "

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

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

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

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

Claire Denis

Tiny

Small

" 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. "

Claire Denis

Nothing

Music

" I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful. "

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

Claire Denis

Relationship

Connecting

" 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? "

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

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

" '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. "

Claire Denis

End

Childhood

" 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. "