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It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words. — 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'm tiny. I'm small. — Claire Denis

I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family. — Claire Denis

I'm a very sinister person. — Claire Denis

I don't want to be mysterious. — Claire Denis

The only thing I find interesting is self-interest. — Claire Denis

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

What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group. — 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

Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual. — Claire Denis

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything. — Claire Denis

Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same. — Claire Denis

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music. — 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

Shoes have a meaning. — 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

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

Start with scout locations first. — Claire Denis

There seem to be more women producers than men. — Claire Denis

You don't grow up naive in Africa. — Claire Denis

Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak. — Claire Denis

I didn't foresee my career. Things happen. — Claire Denis

Sometimes I feel like John Wayne. — Claire Denis

I hate the idea of growing accustomed to someone and being faithful. — Claire Denis

I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end. — Claire Denis

I'm not a tacky person, I think. — Claire Denis

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. — Claire Denis

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

I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film. — Claire Denis

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. — Claire Denis

I don't remember being afraid of anything in making films. — Claire Denis

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. — Claire Denis

I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me. — Claire Denis

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

I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me. — Beatrice Dalle

I'm not a very brave person. — Claire Denis

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think. — Claire Denis

I hate the victimization of women, always. — Claire Denis

'White Material' is about courage and craziness. — Claire Denis

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

When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten. — Claire Denis

In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important. — Claire Denis

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

Freedom is not having a big budget. — Claire Denis

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. — Claire Denis

The history of colonisation cannot disappear. — Claire Denis

In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end. — Claire Denis