Quotes by Claire Denis

My mothers father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.

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 Im not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity.

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.

White Material is about courage and craziness.