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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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"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."
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"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."
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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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"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."
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"Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks."
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"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
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"Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon."
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"So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?"
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"Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do."
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"If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind."
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"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."
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"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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"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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"You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance."
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"It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films."
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"If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart."
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"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."
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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."
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"I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden."
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"I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive."
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