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I hate the victimization of women, always.

I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top.

Claire Denis

Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.

Claire Denis

I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.

Claire Denis

I hate the victimization of women, always.

Claire Denis

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.

Claire Denis

The history of colonisation cannot disappear.

Claire Denis

There seem to be more women producers than men.

Claire Denis

Shoes have a meaning.

Claire Denis

I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on.

Claire Denis

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.

Claire Denis

I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?'

Claire Denis

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.

Claire Denis

I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.

Claire Denis

You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.

Claire Denis

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.

Claire Denis

I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's something in the landscape that's stronger than human civilisation. There's no agriculture, for example, and there are live volcanoes.

Claire Denis

'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.

Claire Denis

I'm not a tacky person, I think.

Claire Denis

For some reason, I have always been interested in the stories of people who are exiled and who are deprived of rights. My main motive to make a film is to keep the society in mind and the hospitality adhered.

Claire Denis

Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.

Claire Denis

Sometimes I feel like John Wayne.

Claire Denis

You don't grow up naive in Africa.

Claire Denis

The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.

Claire Denis

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.

Claire Denis

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.

Claire Denis

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.

Claire Denis

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

My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it.

Claire Denis

I'm not a very brave person.

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A career for me is something like building a bridge. You know, where to put the lifts. You have a plan. I have a blueprint for each film, but not for my life.

Claire Denis

I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable to be unkind to a character. They exist because of me, and I have responsibility for them.

Claire Denis

I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.

Claire Denis

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.

Claire Denis

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.

Claire Denis

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.

Claire Denis