"A splendour of miscellaneous spirits."
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"The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly."
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"There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden."
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"I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand."
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"Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But he made me audition. I was like: "Dude, I don't even want to do this..." So I left the casting of Hostel: Part II to drive to Venice, where Quentin was holding his casting, and the person ahead of me was Derek Richardson from Hostel 1 and he was like: "Dude, what are you doing here?" I said: "Don't ask!""
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"In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn."
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"In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil."
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"Do all men kill the things they do not love?"
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"When my film went to the Venice Film Festival and won the best script writing, the jury [prize], it didn't go to my head. I know how many black filmmakers that I am operating with whose name will never be mentioned. But I'm part of them in that silent existence."
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"I shall be an Attila to Venice."
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"When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address."
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"When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'"
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"Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping."
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"I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701."
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"Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy."
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"I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long."
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"There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?' The emperor did not turn a hair. 'And yet I have never heard you mention that name.' And Polo said: 'Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice."
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"In memory Venice is always magic."
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"Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it."
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"Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really there in the first place."
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