"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."

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"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."

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"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

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"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

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"Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them."

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"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."

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"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied."

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"Writers are not meant for action."

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"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."

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"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."

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"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."

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"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature."

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"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."

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"My pleasure was to copy, not to create."

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"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."

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