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The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.
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.
The history of colonisation cannot disappear.
The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.
There seem to be more women producers than men.
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.
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.
What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.
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.
When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.
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.
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.
You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.
You don't grow up naive in Africa.
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