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All Quotes Collection
"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."
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"Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive."
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"Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance."
34
"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
52
"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."
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"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space."
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"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
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"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
42
"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
36
"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."
35
"There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering."
30
"The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it."
40
"That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend."
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"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."
37
"Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast."
41
"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."
57
"A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward."
38
"A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion."
37
"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird."
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"A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul."
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"A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature."
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"One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere."
51
"It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes."
50
"When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg."
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"The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation."
30
"Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about."
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