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"The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being."
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"For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation."

"Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?"

"Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc."
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"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance."

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot."

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him."

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head."

"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."

"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."
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