"I don't pray because I don't want to bore God."
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"Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid."
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"Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists."
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"I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable."
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"Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame."
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"A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have."
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"I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go."
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"I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon."
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"I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live."
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"I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians."
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"A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army."
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"Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions."
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"Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation."
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"Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there."
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"Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him."
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"If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them."
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"If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio."
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"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them."
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"Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall. All of these are expressions of man's creativity, proof that man has not yet been destroyed by technology. But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always to doubt the importance of the question."
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"Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else."
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