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"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
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"When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with."
"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."
"You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman."
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"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."
"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."
"So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age."
"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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