Claire Denis

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. ”

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. ”

You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion. ”

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 always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on. ”

I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is. ”

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 am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top. ”

Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France. ”

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