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"A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do."
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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."
"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."
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"If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason."
"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."
"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."
"I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style."
"My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life."
"And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world."
"For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty."
"At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political."
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