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"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."
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"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."
Conscience
"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
Film
"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
Society
"I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth."
Society
"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."
Actor
"Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing."
Being
"Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance."
People
"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."
Science
"I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules."
Time
"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space."
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