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"Doing cinema is not about watching yourself."
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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."

"Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it."

"The "Western" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself."

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."

"The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty."

"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
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"One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either."

"The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement."

"European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films."

"Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with."

"If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words."

"A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all."

"French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that."

"A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin."
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