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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. "
Claire Denis
Two People
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" I didn't foresee my career. Things happen. "
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" 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. "
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" There seem to be more women producers than men. "
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" 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? "
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" I'm not witty. "
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" I think you cannot make films without choosing everything. "
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" I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them. "
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" Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak. "
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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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" 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. "
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" When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten. "
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" I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is. "
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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 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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" 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 hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful. "
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" I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top. "
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" A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think. "
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" Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour. "
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" 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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" I'm tiny. I'm small. "
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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 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. "
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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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" It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words. "
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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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