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• We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.
• Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use…
• What are you -- some kind of addict? Is this where you come to...
• I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.
• I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
• If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
• It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed…
• My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a…
• We have to move away from the concept of screening in cinemas. This can be achieved with the new technologies. I enjoy…
• An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the…
• Many quite popular films are filled with violence. I think the difference between those and my films is that I show the…
• I have a very, very secret drive to become a dilettante, without the pejorative overtones or the obligation to produce myself. There's…

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