Claire Denis Quotes
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I'm not a very brave person.
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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 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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You don't grow up naive in Africa.
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I don't want to be mysterious.
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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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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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I'm not witty.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'White Material' is about courage and craziness.