Claire Denis Quotes
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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We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.
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After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.
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I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
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Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.
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Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
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And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
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For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
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I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.
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I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there.
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I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.
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I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.
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Sweete Themmes runne softly, till I end my Song.
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Senator Stanton? The man who’s sold his own soul so many times that no one can figure out who actually owns it?
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A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
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I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!
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I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.
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There are elements to my faith which are echoed very closely in the scripts that come through. I read certain moments, and I'm able to say, 'Yes, I recognize that. I champion that. I ally myself to that idea.' Then there are times where I don't. My feeling is, at this stage in my life, that it will be an ongoing struggle.
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When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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His guy got free a couple times. He had three turnovers in the first 10 minutes. I don't want to lay blame on any one person. He got off to a slow start.
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You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
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Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?
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A lot of music for me was about - I mean aside from the fun and challenge of writing and being really good friends with my bandmates - getting to perform.
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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.
