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“Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.”

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What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme…

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What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.

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I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

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There are always forces at work in a society, certainly in America, which are really forces of censorship -either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film. And all art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is…

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I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

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When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.

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