Claire Denis Quotes
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I'm not a very brave person.
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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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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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I don't want to be mysterious.
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You don't grow up naive in Africa.
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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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There seem to be more women producers than men.
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I'm not witty.
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A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It is heartrending for her, too. But it is not the same.
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For some reason, I have always been interested in the stories of people who are exiled and who are deprived of rights. My main motive to make a film is to keep the society in mind and the hospitality adhered.
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When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.
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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.
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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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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 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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You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.
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The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.
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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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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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We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot.
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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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A career for me is something like building a bridge. You know, where to put the lifts. You have a plan. I have a blueprint for each film, but not for my life.
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'White Material' is about courage and craziness.
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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.