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"It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions."
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"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."

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

"So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less."

"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."

"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."

"In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is."

"There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art."
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