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"You create your world with your thoughts."
"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"
"You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear."
"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."
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"In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is."
"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."
"If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason."
"Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films."
"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."
"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."
"There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art."
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