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I hope I never get so old I get religious.
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Thou shalt make each film as if it were thy last.
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My basic view of things is – not to have any basic view of things.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
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You find him disgusting with his thick mouth and ugly body and wet appealing eyes. You think he's disgusting and you're afraid.
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Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer...
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I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.
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I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.
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We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.
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I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying, but now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Born:
July 14, 1918
Died:
July 30, 2007
(aged 89)
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