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"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
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"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."
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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."
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"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"
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"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."
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"It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way."
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"The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die."
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"It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"The world has become rapidly more competitive."
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"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy."
Art
"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."
Body
"You have to think with the heart."
Heart
"I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart."
Thought
"These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition."
Optimism
"So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less."
Art
"I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style."
Style
"A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do."
Time
"I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives."
People
"There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art."
Art
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