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Quotes by Director
"Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins."
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"Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better."
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"I will not cut my film because, because, because, because of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz."
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"There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized."
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"First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct."
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"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."
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"Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom."
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"I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful."
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"The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you."
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"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television."
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"Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers."
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"And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations."
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"With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext."
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"I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school."
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"These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer."
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"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know."
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"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."
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"Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on."
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"In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do."
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"Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff."
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"So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born."
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"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan."
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"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard."
Man,
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"The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them."
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