5 Quotes & Sayings By Claire Denis

Claire Denis is a French film director, producer, screenwriter. She was born in Paris (June 29, 1965) and studied at the Paris National School of Cinema () before attending the International Film School at Berlin University of the Arts. Her first feature film, "Beau Travail" (1998), was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Her most recent film is "White Material" (2014). In 2012, she was a member of the jury for the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

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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
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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 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
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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. Claire Denis
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'White Material' is about courage and craziness. Claire Denis