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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."
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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."

"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."

"Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls."

"When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music."
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