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"When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour."
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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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"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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"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
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"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."
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"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor."
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"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."
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"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
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"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
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"I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive."
People
"That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them."
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"It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films."
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"I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden."
Home
"When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music."
Music
"Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules."
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"Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls."
Actor
"I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology."
Technology
"When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour."
Film
"More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all."
Evil
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