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1837 Director Quotes

I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.

Kind Kid Talent Ability
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The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

World Professional Unpleasant Wishing
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The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.

Stuff Trouble Casting Godfather
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You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

Ought Love Want Especially
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Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.
Films Hotel Example Big-vision
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I had to get a job, and of course, the job was 'The Godfather.' That made me be something I didn't know I was going to be. I became a big-shot director.

Job Course Godfather Made
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Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

Usually Stuff Best Idea
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If you're a person who says yes most of the time, you'll find yourself in the hotel business and the restaurant business.

Person Say Yes Hotel
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I like to work in the morning. I like to sometimes go to a place where I'm all alone where I'm not going to get a phone call early that hurts my feelings, because once my feelings are hurt, I'm dead in the water.

Work Morning Place Alone
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My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea... I know if I have an idea, no one will want to go through it. But if I persist, people will go through it.

People Idea Have One
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I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.
Black sheep Family Dumb Low IQ
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I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

Ambitious Think Fall Under-ambitious
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“A different language is a different vision of life.”

Different Language Vision Life
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“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.”

End Beginning Passion Life
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“I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.”

Idea Understanding Film Believe
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“Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.”

Even Make Film Sole
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“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.”

Life Combination Magic Pasta
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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

Easier Faithful Restaurant Woman
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“I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.”
Spent Life Trying Education
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“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.”

Cinema Returning Womb Meditative
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“You exist only in what you do.”
Exist What You Do
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“We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.”

Get Beyond Great Work
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“No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.”
Matter Happened Keep Childhood
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“Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.”
Trust Woman Eat Lousy
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“Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.”

Mind Act Shape Thing
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“It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.”

When Doing Work Feel.alive
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“Experience is what you get while looking for something else.”

Experience What Looking
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“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.”

Believe Freedom Artist Ends
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“There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.”

Abundant Testimony Choose Love
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“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.”

Little Silence Kept Quiet
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“You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.”

Spherically Direction Childish Enthusiasm
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“Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.”

Realism Bad Word Realistic
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“I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?”

Television Betrayed Democratic Speech
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“Nothing is more honest than a dream.”

Honest Dream
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“I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.”

Claim Contradict Deprive Nonsense
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“According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.”

According Doctors Suffering Light
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“A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

Created Never Invented True
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“Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.”

Talking Dream Movies Cinema
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“Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.”

Nothing Laughter Beautiful Magnificent
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A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

Attack Defense Force Knowledge
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Always two there are, a master and an apprentice.

Always Apprentice Master Two
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The more work I do, the more important it is to work with people I like - who are very talented.

Important Like More People
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In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.

Against Order Performer Play
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The biggest problems with movies are expectations.
Biggest Expectations Movies Problems
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I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'

Back Differently I Think Look
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I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.

Car Diamonds Enjoy Far
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I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

Always Art Been Director
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A person focused on achieving his/her goals will find life more fulfilling. Keep glowing.

Focused Goals Life Fulfilling
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When you watch my movies and smile, that’s a form of therapy because you’re relaxed watching me. I also teach through my movies, highlighting the difference between right and wrong.

Movies Smile Therapy Right
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I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Get Hope Never Old
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