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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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When you work on a character, you form in your mind an image of what he ought to look like. Then you go and find one who resembles him.

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The first quality of a director is to see. This quality is also valuable in dealing with actors. The actor is one of the elements of the image.

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When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.

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There are many ways of communicating. Some hold the theory that new forms of communication between people can be obtained through hallucinogenic drugs.

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I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.

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