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"I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice."
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"We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them."

"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."

"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions."

"The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally."

"Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash."

"You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face."

"But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors."

"Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences."
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"Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities."

"Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have."

"I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness."

"I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story."

"After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception."

"The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images."
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