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 Photography is truth. One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.
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All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
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Tracking shots are a question of morality.
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What I want above all is to destroy the idea of culture. Culture is an alibi of imperialism. There is a Ministry of War. There is a Ministry of Culture. Therefore, culture is war.
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All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun.
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People in life quote as they please, so we have the right to quote as we please. Therefore I show people quoting, merely making sure that they quote what pleases me.
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In the beginning I believed in Cannes, but now it`s just for publicity. People come to Cannes just to advertise their films, not with a particular message. But the advantage is that if you go to the festival, you get so much press coverage in three days that it advertises the film for the rest of the year.
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There is no point in having sharp images when you`ve fuzzy ideas.
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I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
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To be or not to be. That`s not really a question.
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I make film to make time pass.
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You don`t make a movie, the movie makes you.
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A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.
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I don`t think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can`t kiss a movie.
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My aesthetic is that of the sniper on the roof.
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I write essays in the form of novels, or novels in the form of essays. I`m still as much of a critic as I ever was during the time of `Cahiers du Cinema.` The only difference is that instead of writing criticism, I now film it.
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A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
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I don`t think you should FEEL about a movie. You should feel about a woman. You can`t kiss a movie.
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Every edit is a lie.
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In a house there is the top floor and there is the cellar. The underground filmmakers live in the same house as Hollywood, but they work in the cellar. It`s up to them if they like to live in the dark. The Hollywood filmmakers are more intelligent, because they have that sunny top floor.
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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
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To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can`t be separated.
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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
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The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
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It`s over. There was a time maybe when cinema could have improved society, but that time was missed.
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Up to now -- since shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution -- most movie makers have been assuming that they know how to make movies. Just like a bad writer doesn`t ask himself if he`s really capable of writing a novel -- he thinks he knows. If movie makers were building airplanes, there would be an accident every time one took off. But in the movies, these accidents are called Oscars.
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[on Los Angeles] "It`s a big garage."
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[on cinema] Truth twenty-four times a second.
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Speaking at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival about filmmaker Michael Moore: "Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary."
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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
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Trivia
Was voted the 31st Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
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Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 392-400. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
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Was offered the opportunity to direct "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) after François Truffaut declined.
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A huge fan of American auteur Nicholas Ray and famously said that "the cinema is Nicholas Ray.".
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