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"It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing."
"First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law."
"I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing."
"My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more."
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"I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control."
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