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"The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting."
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"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
"The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define."
"Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?"
"In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge."
"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."
"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds."
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
"To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends.I'd never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people."
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"I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way."
"Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films."
"And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous."
"However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years."
"I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie."
"The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting."
"So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point."
"I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures."
"Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant."
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