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"Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?"

"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."

"You know, I'm not at all against CG. I really admire many films that are made, especially when they have such great design sense to them. I think that's so important, whichever medium. You use a medium for a reason."

"I’m surprised by the success of anything I do, but it’s gratifying when the public approves."

"Sergei Eisenstein Is Dead In Moscow; Obituary, New York Times, February 12, 1948"

"The goal was just to finish the movie and get it out in a few theaters. To think that decades later people would still be thinking and talking about it, I could have never imagined."

"The star system has us making pictures with personalities rather than stories, sacrificing everything in order to keep some old bags playing young women."

"You come into this world a zero, and you leave a zero."

"The public acceptance of "I Love Lucy" and "Our Miss Brooks" has been a source of great inspiration for me. The challenge has been a real one -- one I have found both stimulating and exciting."

"I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do."

"It is a part of puberty that we just want to go somewhere far away. We only have a vague image, like behind that mountain or a place more beautiful..."

"You know what they say - the sweetest word in the English language is revenge."

"People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries."

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🇫🇷Henri Cartier-Bresson

Art

humanistic photography

1908–2004

"We had a certain idea of our work, a respect for others, and above all, not to be paparazzi. For the photographer, curiosity is essential, the terrible counterpart is indiscretion, which is a lack of restraint."

"Netflix has already gone mainstream. Not mainstream but they’ve gone snob. They have an angry housewife who’s making all the selections."

"If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution."

"I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things."

"...Indian cinema does not stand for just Bollywood. Kolkata is the place of Satyajit Ray..."

"Good ideas can go bad because they’re made for the wrong reasons. The mission isn’t the right mission. Even though all the players may be noble players, the mission itself is fundamentally flawed."

"Isn't it human to go beyond the limits, to grow beyond oneself, to strive toward freedom! The round is free."

"It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul."

"Stewart Copeland is an amazing drummer. I just wish he didn't think he was amazing. Sting is a lovely bloke. We've become friends. I felt honored to be on stage with him at Live Aid."

"There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories."

"We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation."

"I'd never trust anyone who hadn't spent at least one night of his youth in the local jail. The more hell you raise as a teen-ager, the sweeter your memories will be."

"I'm not one for the trappings of success. I drive a one-year-old Citroën Xantia and I hate shopping. I did have a share in a glider - that is as far as it goes."

"All the movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds."

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🇫🇷Jean Cocteau

Literature

theatre of the absurd

1889–1963

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."

"One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs."

"A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him."

"Thanks mom, thanks dad for the bird you gave me."

"The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function."

"I get fan mail almost every day, and lots of calls from people who say, "We’re having a party. Could you bring your rubber suit over and jump in the pool and scare everybody?."

"Chumps prefer a beautiful lie to an ugly truth."

"The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual."

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