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"I did not have a reputation to defend."
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"It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true."
"But secluding my experience during that early period was both cowardly and wise. Some things are too fragile, too vulnerable to bring into the public eye. Tender things with tiny roots tend to wither in the glare of public scrutiny. By holding my awakening within, I contained the energy of it, and it fed me the way blood feeds muscle. It fed me a certain propelling energy, and I kept moving forward."
"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all."
"Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy."
"As much as anything else, it was a stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded, doesn't quite approve when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-three, like that."
"If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears."
"Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite."
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"If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children."
"I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction."
"You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity."
"I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line."
"My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way."
"In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent."
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