Claire Denis Quotes
Top 52 wise famous quotes and sayings by Claire Denis
Claire Denis Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Claire Denis on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.
I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
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.
I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?'
Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual.
I think working as an assistant was a part of knowing people who like cinema, and to learn from a movie, you have to watch it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.
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.
In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.
A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.
I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.