Claire Denis Quotes
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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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I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.
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I really started watching films when I was 14. As I became a teenager, there was nothing that really interested me apart from music, books and films.
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When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel. I never stop touching.
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Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual.
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Shoes have a meaning.
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In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.
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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.
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'White Material' is about courage and craziness.
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My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it.
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'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France.
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I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.
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I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.
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Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.
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Growing up outside your own country makes you feel that you don't belong when you return, so you feel free to make friends with whomever you like.
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I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.
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I'm tiny. I'm small.
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Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same.
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I don't know - music in film, for me, is not another part of a soundtrack; it is something that also helps to approach a character, to foresee the type of image - you see what I mean - it's like a part of the process.
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I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.
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I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.
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Sometimes I feel like John Wayne.
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Filmmaking creates a sort of - trust, maybe. It has led me to a group of people I feel good with. We have something in common because of film, when otherwise we might have nothing.
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Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.