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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are."


"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."


"When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration."


"The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine."


"Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing."
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