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"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."

"If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity."
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"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."

"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."

"I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style."

"My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life."

"And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world."

"For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty."

"At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political."

"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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