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I'm just a storyteller, and th...

I'm just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it's far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It's not just an art form; it's actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It's my way of telling a story.

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Going to the cinema is like re...

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

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A good opening and a good endi...

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

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The public has lost the habit ...

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all Ђ' that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open Ђ' has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?

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Experience is what you get whi...

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

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Never trust a woman who doesn'...

Never trust a woman who doesn't like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.

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It is only when I am doing my ...

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

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The visionary is the only real...

The visionary is the only realist.

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I even see the cinema itself a...

I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

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Our duty as storytellers is to...

Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.

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Like many people, I have no re...

Like many people, I have no religion, and I am just sitting in a small boat drifting with the tide. I live in the doubts of my duty.... I think there is dignity in this, just to go on working.... Today we stand naked, defenseless, and more alone than at any time in history. We are waiting for something, perhaps another miracle, perhaps the Martians. Who knows?

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Real religion should be someth...

Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement.

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If I'm a cruel satirist at lea...

If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses

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You have to live spherically -...

You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.

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If there were a little more si...

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

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There is abundant testimony th...

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

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I don't believe in total freed...

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

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What's important is the way we...

What's important is the way we say it. Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish. Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that. It's not what we say but how we say it that matters.

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Regrets are a waste of time. T...

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

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You see me in my most virile m...

You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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