I'm not rich.
— Claire Denis
When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.
Life is not better and more moral than it was in the '50s. It's just the same.
I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.
I'm a very sinister person.
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 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.
You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.
My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it.
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.
I'm not a tacky person, I think.
I hate the victimization of women, always.
I'm not witty.
In Kurosawa's films, the tragedy is that this strong man was crushed by corruption or mistrust at the end.
What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.
Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.
I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.
I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.
Shoes have a meaning.
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.
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.
I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on.
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.
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.
