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"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."
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"Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema."
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"I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful."
"Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work."
"That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them."
"If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me."
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"I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life."
"More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all."
"Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules."
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