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"Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either."

"I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like at a scorpion enclosure. But a film that shows the world is a Bates Motel, well, that's... the stuff of Buchloe, dystopia, depression. We'll dip our toes in a predatory, amoral, godless unive3rse, but only our toes."

"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."

"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."

"Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it."
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"One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together."

"I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie."

"I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas."

"Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion."

"To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated."

"A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order."
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