"To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from."
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"American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art."
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"I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director."
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"You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline."
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"Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies - what television did kill was cinema newsreel. TV does it much better because it can deliver it instantly. Who wants last week's news?"
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"Cinema has no boundaries...we all belong to the same artistic community."
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"Cinema and emotion trump reality for me."
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"We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty."
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"When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers."
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"I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition."
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"If people go to IMDB, they will see that I'm very comfortable with independent cinema, and doing studio films too. For me this is not an either/or situation."
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"It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession of pictures on a cinema film. It may be that reality is an illusion of movement in an eternal, static, multidimensional universe. We may be only a story written on the ground of the inconceivable; the pattern on a rug beneath the feet of the incomprehensible."
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"Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen."
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"In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one."
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"Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me."
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"I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if I can come home from working on a little film after doing it for 45 years and say, "I learned so much today," that shows something about the cinema. Because the cinema is very young. It's only 100 years old."
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"Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships."
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"I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the right story to tell. So I'm looking for that. Because I really love directing. I love developing the story. I love actors. I love the cinema of it, the way that you tell a story visually."
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"There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema."
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"Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere."
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