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Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy.
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I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.
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Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.
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Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
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It isn't easy to understand the lives of people different from your own.
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In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.
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Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.
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Is it important to show why a character is what he is? No. He is. That's all.
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I forget about the relationship between myself and any actress when working with her.
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I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.
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I'm not rich and maybe I'll never be rich. Money is useful - yes - but I don't worship it.
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My characters are ambiguous. Call them that. I don't mind. I am ambiguous myself. Who isn't?
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The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.
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The greatest danger for those working in the cinema is the extraordinary possibility it offers for lying.
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I'll go on making films until I make one that pleases me from the first to the last frame. Then I'll quit.
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You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.
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I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.
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I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.
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All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.
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After you've learned two or three basic rules of cinema grammar, you can do what you like - including breaking those rules.
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Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.
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I am not a theoretician of the cinema. If you ask me what directing is, the first answer that comes into my head is: I don't know.
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I'm more or less skeptical about marriage, because of family ties, relations between children and parents - it's all so depressing.
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I always want to tell stories. But they must be stories that evolve, like our own lives. Perhaps what I seek is a new kind of story.
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Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
September 29, 1912
Died:
July 30, 2007
(aged 94)
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