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"In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake."
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"After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin."

"Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology."

"In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake."

"I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me."

"If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused."
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"Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress."

"Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim."

"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can."

"There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her."

"I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning."

"Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?"
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