"My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them."
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"All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman."
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"The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage."
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"Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality."
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"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood."
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"I am for people. I can't help it."
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"My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist."
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"That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves."
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"Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant"
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"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."
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"3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, 7 is a prime, 9 is the next prime after 8."
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"The kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!"
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"Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one."
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"I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch."
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"It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her."
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"To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress."
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"If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance."
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"If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window."
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"Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty."
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"I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films."
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