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"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
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"I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts."
Eating

"Gluttony is not a secret vice."
Gluttony

"Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others."
Style

"I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."
Time

"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends."
Woman

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."
Friendship

"The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it."
Flying

"I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose."
Love

"I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."
Time

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
People
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"Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us."
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"He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."
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"I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera."
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"Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others."
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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."
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"You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you."
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"The master's eye is the best fertilizer."
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"Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed."
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"It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that."
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"This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me."
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