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1625 Film director Quotes

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

Awful Become Cry Films
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I make all my decisions on intuition.
Decisions Intuition Make
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Army Darkness Find Intellect
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I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

Chair I Love Lazy Look
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
Boring Much Patience Takes
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.

About Doing Dream Film
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.

Alive Always Ask Did
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The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

Anger Closely Creativity Intertwined
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From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'

Age Early Early Age Humor
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I am forever living in my childhood.

Am Childhood Forever I Am
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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

Am Chaotic Firm I Am
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I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

Am Arranged Because Being
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We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

Affair Break Depression Father
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

Calming Difficulty Down Everything
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

Books Difficult Intend Longing
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
Create Mindset Exist
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Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
Fact Films Longer Make
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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.

Berlin Created Egg Even
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.

Always Appreciated Brutality Doubt
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I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.

Experience Julie Miss Premiere
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If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
Done Get Go Myself
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

Always Desires Dreams Emotions
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My education was very tough.

Education My Tough Very
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

About Construction Creating Father
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.

Bloody Was Tempered Young
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Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.

Against Aging Creativity Demons
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The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

Almost Artist Considers Ego
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.

About Aims Answer Ask
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

Against Because Certainly Created
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There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

Anyone Been Discuss Done
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

Close Cold Come Could
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

About Arrangement Dying Extremely
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I am normally afraid of birds and have never dreamt of any bird in my life.
Afraid Am Any Bird
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If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.

Been Had Has Been Healthy
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There is something joyous about not talking.

About Joyous Not Talking Something
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One should never get tired of seeking knowledge because the world is dynamic and ever-changing.

Never Tired Knowledge World
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After learning for a period, it is only normal to celebrate your efforts. It is a wonderful thing to start a project and finish it; because not everyone is able to do that.

Learning Normal Effort Project
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Knowledge gathering is a continuous process; it never stops.

Knowledge Gathering Continuous Process
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As we grow older, we realize that challenges are only normal things that happen as one progresses in life.

Grow-older Realize Challenges Life
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There is always a price to pay for whatever you want to achieve in life.

Price Pay Achieve Life
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whatever the government does not support would have a hard time succeeding.

Government Support Hard Succeeding
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If one is not appreciated where he comes from, it would be hard for outsiders to support you.

Appreciated Comes-from Outsiders Support
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People have different interests and what they look out for. That a woman makes up her face or uses jewelry doesn’t mean she’s not a wife material.

People Interest Woman Make-up
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If you think you have not made it today to your expectation, check what you are doing. If you are good with it, keep doing it.

Think Expectation Good
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Oh God who works in secret, restore our world to its former glory. Restore the weakening economies of nations to a place where there is abundance for all.

God Secret Restore World
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I can’t wait for Nigeria to be declared Covid-19 free and for us to resume our normal lives back.
Wait Declared Free Resume
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I’m doing great things today. What about you? Touch a soul in any little way you can

Great Things Soul Little-way
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In all you do and achieve in this life, please be thankful to the Creator and don’t take pride to yourself.
Achieve Life Please Thankful
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No matter your level, everyone finds prominence.

Matter Level Everyone Prominence
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Remember the principle of sowing and giving. Sow the best of effort so you can reap the best.

Remember Principle Giving Reap
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