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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.
Claire Denis
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Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.
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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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The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me.
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'White Material' is about courage and craziness.
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What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.
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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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I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on.
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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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What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour... I'm not interested in making conclusions. I would never think about myself or anyone else, 'Well, this happened, this happened, this happened, so this must be the result.' It doesn't work like that with me.
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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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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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