Claire Denis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
-
My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
-
No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
-
I like doing my own stunts.
-
The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
-
The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
-
Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
-
All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
-
'The Movie' is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.
-
I find that I can't work and listen to radio – either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.
-
I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and they use it to class music, but I don't think it's a word that necessarily classes music.
-
A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
-
It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
-
I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.
-
I think I have enough of a sense to know what works for me and what doesn't, without going into some big thing and analyzing what I do. I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.
-
In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
-
Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.
-
I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.
-
I wanted to be a cartoonist, and then I wanted to go into film - not as an actor, but as a writer-director - and then I found myself during film school at the University of Southern California listening to the Clarence Thomas hearings in class on my Walkman, and I realized L.A. was not really for me.
-
I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
-
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
-
A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.
-
I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book what's really 'at stake,' but ultimately it's not about them - it's always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.
-
I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top.
