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• The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it…
• I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million…
• Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to…
• The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
• The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the…
• The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent
• If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least…
• I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful…
• I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something…
• I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do…
• The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say…
• I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in…

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