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" When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten. "

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

" What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group. "

" I'm not a tacky person, I think. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak. "

" 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. "

" I'm a very sinister person. "

" I don't remember being afraid of anything in making films. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You don't grow up naive in Africa. "

" 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. "

" I didn't foresee my career. Things happen. "

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

" I think you cannot make films without choosing everything. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Shoes have a meaning. "

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

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