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Claire Denis

French Director

Always Life Me People Think You

Related authors: Agnes Varda Alain Resnais Claude Chabrol Francois Truffaut Jean-Luc Godard Jean Cocteau Robert Bresson Sacha Guitry

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

Life Good Sometimes Some Part Bleak Always Necessary

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. Claire Denis

Me People Cinema Sometimes Focus Extraordinary Part Motivates Existences Situations Human Ordinary Places Ordinary Situations Really Should Lives

I hate the victimization of women, always. Claire Denis

Women Hate Always Victimization

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. Claire Denis

Good Me Trust Feel Good People Nothing Group Otherwise Something Feel Sort Because Led Maybe Common Might Creates Film Filmmaking

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

Rights People Mind Society Some Hospitality Main Make Always Been Motive Stories Interested Deprived Reason Who Keep Film

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

You Think Films Everything Make Without Cannot Choosing

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

Love Morning Me You Love Me Mother Father Parents Mother And Father Think Would Someone Only Absolute Had Still Were Very Child Fidelity Ask Asked Preoccupied Nightmare

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

More Continent Africa Poor March

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

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

I'm not witty. Claire Denis

Witty

I'm a very sinister person. Claire Denis

Sinister Very Person

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

Think Eye Audience Camera Either Your Film Belongs

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

Think Tacky Person

I'm not rich. Claire Denis

Rich

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

You Naive Up Africa Grow Grow Up

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

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

Foresee Happen Things Things Happen Career

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

Work Myself Me People Result Think Else Must Would About Give Never Like Well Conclusions Making Behaviour Anyone Anyone Else Happened Not Interested Interested Explanations Much

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

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