Claire Denis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Iâ€™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.
-- Claire Denis

#Coffee #Perfect #Cigarette
Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a cafÃ© somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.
-- Claire Denis

#Paris #People #Filmmaking
I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the cafÃ©, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film.
-- Claire Denis

#Track #Directors #Location
Freedom is not having a big budget.
-- Claire Denis

#Bigs #Budgets
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.
-- Claire Denis

#Coffee #Perfect Days #Cigarette
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.
-- Claire Denis

#Thinking #Violence #Film
Start with scout locations first.
-- Claire Denis

#Location #Firsts

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.
You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself. For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee.
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force, effect, or power. But a written goal becomes something that you can see, touch, read, and modify if necessary.
Iâ€™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.
Cigarettes and coffee, man, that's a combination.

Claire Denis famous quotes

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