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Portrait of Claire Denis

Claire Denis

(1946) Actor France

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Claire Denis is an actor from France, best known for Intruder.

Quick Facts About Claire Denis

Born: April 21, 1946
Nationality: France
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Intruder

About Claire Denis

Claire Denis is a French film director and screenwriter. Her feature film Beau Travail (1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s and of all time. Her work has dealt with themes of colonial and post-colonial West Africa, as well as issues in modern France, and continues to influence European cinematic identity.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Berliner Kunstpreis Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres

Quotes by Claire Denis

I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.

Cinema

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I don't remember being afraid of anything in making films.

Anything

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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…

Cinema

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A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It…

Another man

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I don't know - music in film, for me, is not another part of a soundtrack; it is something that also helps…

Character

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It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

Language

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I'm not witty.

Humor

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

Connecting

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I have very strong relationships with my actors when I'm shooting. When you love an actor's work, you always feel you have…

Cinema

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

Apartment

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For some reason, I have always been interested in the stories of people who are exiled and who are deprived of rights.…

Cinema

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When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill…

Children

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

Being

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Inside the family, you can go from hate to passivity to extreme love within the same hour.

Family

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

About

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Sometimes I feel like John Wayne.

Feel

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When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel.…

Body

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Freedom is not having a big budget.

Bigs

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I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have…

Cinema

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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…

Always

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I don't want to be mysterious.

Mysterious

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I'm not rich.

Money

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I can be unkind to someone in the street or in the subway - I'm a bad-tempered person - but I'm unable…

Character

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My grandfather died when I was 12, but I remember the sorrow of my mother. Even now, she's an old lady, but…

Father

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My films are always looked at strangely, and there is nothing I can do about it.

About

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Claire Denis by topic

Cinema (23) People (12) Film (9) Life (8)