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"I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new."
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"I'm just a soul whose intentions are good,'" he sang to the crabs and the spiders and the palmetto beetles and the lizards and the night. '"Oh lord, please don't let me be misunderstood."

"Brother, I'm not depressed and haven't lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter " this is what life is, herein lies its task."

"Hope is oxygen to the soul, and God is the oxygen of hope."
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"In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film."

"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same."

"The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made."

"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."

"But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature."

"So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age."

"I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film."

"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
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