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"I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently."
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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
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"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."
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"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."
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"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."
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"Think before you act and act on what you believe."
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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
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"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."
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"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
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"Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects - they are funnier than her other qualities."
Love

"The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images."
Challenge

"All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres."
Movies

"Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women."
Woman

"I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema."
Time

"The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion."
Emotional

"I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity."
Change

"I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness."
Life

"I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story."
Work

"Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have."
Work
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