Claire Denis Quotes
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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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My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.
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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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In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.
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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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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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I'm tiny. I'm small.
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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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Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual.
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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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Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same.
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Sometimes I feel like John Wayne.
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I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.
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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've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.
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Shoes have a meaning.
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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 am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top.
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Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.
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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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My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it.
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I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.