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"I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new."
"Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it."
"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same."
"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
"The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made."
"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
"I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film."
"In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film."
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"It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work."
"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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