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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.

~Claire Denis

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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

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

~Claire Denis

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

~Claire Denis

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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

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Director

Born: Unknown

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