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"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."
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"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

"I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find."

"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."

"To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet."

"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."

"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."

"Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them."

"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."

"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
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"He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film."

"The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility."

"It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake."

"From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions."

"I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time."

"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies."

"It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it."

"I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts."

"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."
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