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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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"No one will teach you what you ought to know. You must search the truth for yourself."
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"We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom."
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"He seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance."
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"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."
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"There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals."
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"We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world."
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"Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that."
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"A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect."
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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."
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"And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world."
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"My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life."
Life
"And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble."
Movies
"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."
Opportunity
"At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power."
Power
"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
Intellectual
"So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less."
Art
"These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition."
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"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."
World
"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."
Photography
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