Top 80 Quotes & Sayings by Claire Denis - Page 2

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

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.

I'm not a very brave person.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I don't think I see the way bodies move in any special way. People say I do, but everybody moves. I don't see why all of a sudden I'm a specialist in the way bodies move.

Start with scout locations first.

Freedom is not having a big budget.

I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

I'm an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch.

I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that.