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1174 Filmmaker Quotes

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Believe Better Dance Guys
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Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

Camera Child Giving Hands
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Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Achieve Argue Awakens Certain
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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Art Consciousness Even Exacerbate
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Always Bit Dying Every
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If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Becomes Enough Hands He
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America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.

America Big Center Eye
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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Born Cheats Day Each
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Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
Giant Hip Jungle Primitive
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Baby Being Between Book
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The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Century Each Event Horror
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In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

America Blows Bullets Cell
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I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

About Act Bad Creative
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A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Borders Democracy Discovers Far
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Books Closest Come Ever
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Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
Alimony Class Curse Writing
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In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

America Few FewPeople Irreverent
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I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Afraid Cats Cockroaches Horses
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Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Always Another Being Bit
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Battles Gain Given Honor
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Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

American AmericanLife AmericanMen Because
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Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
Count History Individuals Most
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I hate everything which is not in myself.

Everything Hate Myself Which
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The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

AllTheWorld Blood Cry Dirty
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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

Anxiety Man Natural Role
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I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

Ability Become Combinations Grasp
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I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Absurd Here Huge IThink
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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Awful Both Evil Exceptional
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It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Actions History Make Men
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God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Ambition Conceived Destiny Extraordinary
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We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

Answers Certain Come Could
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Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Activity Answer Back Because
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Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

Admit Always Crazy Fine
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If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

Book Chapters Cut Last
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Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

Bachelors Cool Like Never
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Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
Buying Get GetMarried Gourmet
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My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

About Basically Believed Cook
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My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Comic Day Life Mother
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What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
About Believed Cooking Else
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In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

Ever Fantasy Loves Me
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The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

Again Almost Basic Believe
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Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

Beware Cry Feelings Men
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I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

Actually Complicated Interesting Parts
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What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

After Frankly Great Happen
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As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date

AsFarAs Concerned Date Even
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I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Am Continually Controversial Difficulty
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I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech

Acceptance Also Care Don'tCare
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With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Adolescence Any Child Desperate
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When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Life Possible Realize Rest
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When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.

Banana Become Hero Joke
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