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. Claire Denis More Quotes by Claire Denis More Quotes From Claire Denis Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by. Claire Denis filmmaking paris people Freedom is not having a big budget. Claire Denis budgets bigs 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. Claire Denis cigarette perfect-days coffee I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film. Claire Denis track directors firsts Start with scout locations first. Claire Denis location firsts Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak. Claire Denis good always sometimes life 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. Claire Denis i-am cinema simple people 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 focus sometimes people I hate the victimization of women, always. Claire Denis always victimization women hate 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 people 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 always society mind people When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten. Claire Denis beau listened lot doing 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. Claire Denis feel never body work I think you cannot make films without choosing everything. Claire Denis without everything think you Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour. Claire Denis you family hate love 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 me mother morning love 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. Claire Denis live place me society 'White Material' is about courage and craziness. Claire Denis about craziness white courage 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. Claire Denis great grandfather mother father 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. Claire Denis diamonds you business world
