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"I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker."
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"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."

"Making your first feature film is actually impossible."

"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."
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"But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being."

"I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind."

"With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art."

"It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema."
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