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" You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion. "
Claire Denis
Life
France
Without
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" Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. "
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" '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. "
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End
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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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You
" Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same. "
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" I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me. "
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Me
Said
Film
" 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. "
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Dancing
People
Fast
" I don't want to be mysterious. "
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Want
Mysterious
" 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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You
Time
Together
" I hate the victimization of women, always. "
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Victimization
Hate
Women
" 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
" The only thing I find interesting is self-interest. "
Claire Denis
Only
Find
Self-Interest
" 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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People
Work
Think
" Shoes have a meaning. "
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Shoes
Meaning
" When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten. "
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Lot
Listened
Doing
" 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. "
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Responsibility
Character
Street
" I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on. "
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You
Always
Body
" 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. "
Claire Denis
Feel Good
People
Trust
" I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film. "
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Long
Dying
Film
" Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak. "
Claire Denis
Always
Some
Sometimes
" I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is. "
Claire Denis
Brain
Brains
Think
" My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it. "
Claire Denis
Nothing
About
Always
" I'm not a tacky person, I think. "
Claire Denis
I Think
Person
Tacky
" 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
" 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. "
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Your
Audience
Film
" Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence. "
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Hero
Influence
Mother
" 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. "
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Challenges
I Am
People
" 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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Famous
Mother
Great
" Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour. "
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Love
Family
You
" 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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Family
Hotel
Always
" What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group. "
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Two People
Solitude
People