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The finished product is not finished when the actor is. The work is completed by a pair of shears.

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A shaft of white light used properly can be far more effective than all the color in the world used indiscriminately.

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There are some things which cannot be learned, though they can be studied. Among them are the laws of art—and the lawlessness of it, as well.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Josef von Sternberg

Josef von Sternberg

Born: May 29, 1894
Died: December 22, 1969 (aged 75)
Bio: Josef von Sternberg, born Jonas Sternberg was an Austrian-American film director. His family emigrated permanently to the United States when he was fourteen, and he grew up in New York City.
Known for:
  1. The Blue Angel (1930)
  2. Shanghai Express (1932)
  3. The Scarlet Empress (1934)
  4. The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
  5. The Last Command (1928)

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