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"I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style."
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"Have the nature of a dervish: then wear a stylish cap."

"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."

"I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood."

"I am chic, sleek, and so unique."

"I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style."

"When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That's charm."
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"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."

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

"Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered."

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

"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."

"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."

"If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason."
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