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"Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that."
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"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
"It's not going to be easy, but it's kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done."
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"I mean, you work and you try and find the work that suits you the best and you enjoy the most."
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