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"I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. That's a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations."
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"An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie."
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"A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience."
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"Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite."
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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."
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"Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs."
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"Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema."
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"Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do."
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"In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else."
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"I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it."
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"I am all right when I work. I am not superficial and I am not ungrateful."
Work
"I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now."
Cinema
"I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society."
Society
"I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals."
Beauty
"If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined."
People
"If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier."
Love
"What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."
Age
"I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big."
American
"I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian."
Family
"Film-making was not at all what I had expected."
Film
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