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- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it.
- Rich
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not rich.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't grow up naive in Africa.
- Small
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm tiny. I'm small.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't foresee my career. Things happen.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There seem to be more women producers than men.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
'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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Feel Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I feel like John Wayne.
- Disappear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of colonisation cannot disappear.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
'White Material' is about courage and craziness.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be mysterious.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
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 Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate family pressures and family responsibilities. I'm more comfortable as a stranger. I always imagined I could just live in a hotel. I'm afraid of family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It is heartrending for her, too. But it is not the same.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a very brave person.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.
- Diamonds
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have countries that have a lot of minerals and diamonds and oil and are in business with companies from all over the world - but these companies don't share, really, their profits - this is called post-post-colonial.
- March
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.
- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Witty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not witty.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very sinister person.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate the victimization of women, always.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.
- Nov 07, 2020
Shoes have a meaning.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a tacky person, I think.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020