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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."

"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes."

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

"By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects."

"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."
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