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"I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy."
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"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."
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"Looper is another great film."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it."
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"When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad."
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"And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise."
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"I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again."
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"We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed."
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"The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika."
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"I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction."
Life
"I never made a film which fully satisfied me."
Film
"I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing."
Movies
"I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line."
Man
"Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring."
Love
"In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent."
Car
"Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater."
Cinema
"My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way."
Expression
"You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity."
People
"Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling."
Emotional
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