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"Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda."
"I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films."
"I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
"I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result."
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"My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more."
"I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing."
"It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people."
"There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color."
"Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen."
"As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing."
"First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law."
"I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control."
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