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Quotes by Director
"Angels possess greater powers than do human beings."
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"I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away."
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"I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends."
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"The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political."
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"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."
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"You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ."
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"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them."
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"Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry."
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"Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances."
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"We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds."
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"You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything."
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"I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has."
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"Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory."
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"Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding."
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"What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority."
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"I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic."
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"And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people."
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"Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality."
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"My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality."
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"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."
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"I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job."
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"If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results."
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"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."
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"This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level."
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"If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off."
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"I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!"
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"Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates."
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"I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily."
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