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"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."
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"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."
"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."
"There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?"
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"In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film."
"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."
"I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film."
"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
"The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes."
"But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature."
"The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made."
"So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age."
"I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new."
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