"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."

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"Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."

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"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."

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"For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave."

Jacques Rivette, French Director

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"He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film."

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Todd Barry, American Comedian

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"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."

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"There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die."

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"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."

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"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."

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"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper."

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"You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas."

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"I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old."

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