"I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing."

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"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."

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"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

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"I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other."

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"When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way."

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"I was always attracted to science fiction movies."

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"I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit."

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"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."

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"My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own."

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"I did not have a reputation to defend."

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"Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring."

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"If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children."

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"Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling."

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"I never made a film which fully satisfied me."

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"I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction."

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"You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity."

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"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."

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"I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line."

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"My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way."

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