Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be — a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they — and all of us — have to be able to think about a world that works differently.
“…for me, cinema is not made to give a psychological explanation, for me cinema is montage, is editing. To make blocks of impressions or emotion meet with another block of impression or emotion and put in between pieces of explanation, to me it’s boring… As a spectator, when I see a movie one block leads me to another block of inner emotion, I think that’s cinema. That’s an encounter… I think that making films for me is to get rid of explanation… you get explanation by getting rid of explanation. I am sure of that.”
Claire Denis