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"Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either."

"I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like at a scorpion enclosure. But a film that shows the world is a Bates Motel, well, that's... the stuff of Buchloe, dystopia, depression. We'll dip our toes in a predatory, amoral, godless unive3rse, but only our toes."

"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."

"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."

"Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it."
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"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."

"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."

"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real."
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