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.

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There seem to be more women producers than men.

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'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.

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I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in Africa?'

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

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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.

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Sometimes I feel like John Wayne.

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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.

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I hate the victimization of women, always.

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I'm not witty.

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