Claire Denis Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
-
I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
-
The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
-
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
-
Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
-
A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
-
Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
-
I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
-
The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
-
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
-
It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
-
A lot happens in 20 years.
-
The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
-
I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
-
When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
-
Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
-
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
-
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
-
I know there are problems that I say to myself, If maybe I was a little more gifted I might have been able to solve. But that's not because I believe what I did was a mistake. It's that maybe it required the talents of a Lincoln.
-
Being an actor is just kind of embarrassing.
-
I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans.
-
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
-
If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.
-
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.
