Claire Denis Quotes

Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

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

I'm an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch.

Freedom is not having a big budget.

I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that.

Start with scout locations first.

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.

'White Material' is about courage and craziness.