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"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."
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"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"Looper is another great film."
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"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."
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"I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."
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"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."
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"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
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"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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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
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"You should not separate your life from what you do."
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"My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?"
Life

"It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one."
Death

"People's opinions don't interfere with me."
People

"I can be intimidating, but not within the confines of a film shoot."
Film

"Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes."
Time

"To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it."
Love

"To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude."
Beach

"If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path."
Idea

"I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know."
Life
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