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"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
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"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."
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"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature."
"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."
"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."
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