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I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.
Claire Denis
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I didn't foresee my career. Things happen.
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I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
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My grandfather died when I was 12, but I remember the sorrow of my mother. Even now, she's an old lady, but when she speaks about her father, she looks young. A love like that is undefeated, you know?
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Because TV is mostly close up, it has to be fast. And because it has to be fast, you don't have time to explain completely, by a sequence shot, what's happening between people. So instead of experiencing what's happening, say, when a couple is dancing, dialogue is used to explain.
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We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot.
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I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people.
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Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.
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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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I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.
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I don't remember being afraid of anything in making films.
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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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