Claire Denis Quotes

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.

Families are the deepest, most screwed up relationships that we have.

I think a lot of the time, we don't give our family connections the kind of credit they deserve, like how important they are to us and how much they mean to us. I think family makes all the difference.

'Queen Sugar' is a drama about family. It's something that allows us to be ourselves and see the ways that we interact with our own families.

Everyone has bits of dysfunction in their families, but I actually have a very nice, happy one.

My family mean a lot to me, but I guess that's like it is with every other player.

I place value on my family above everything else.

The most important people to please are your family.

This is so weird. They're your brother and aunt." "No, I understand. They're your family too." Rhys said. "They loved you and raised you. That's what family is, right?

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.

I love my mother-in-law and I think I'm a really good one, too.

To me, families are puzzles that take a lifetime to work out - or not, as often is the case - and I like to explore how people within them try to connect, be it through love, duty, or circumstance.

I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.

I have a great family myself so I know if you don't have a family you've got nothing. Nothing else can take the place of the family - not girlfriends or a career.

I mean, families are weird.

I definitely have family on the brain.

My family is the most important thing to me.

Amadu is all about the family. I've never known love like that before, and it made me think, 'I want a bit of that'. It kind of forced me to get to know my family again. Another reason why he's so lovely.

You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.

I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no one you feel more protective of than the very same people who can drive you crazy.

I like stories that affect families.

I talked about my family, my family's so important.

I don't know that it exists, the perfect family. It's always complicated.

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.