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" Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. "
Without
Tennis
Play
" Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking. "
Life
Afraid
Filmmaking
" Far be it from me to force anyone into either chess or dressage, but if you choose to do so yourself, in my opinion there is only one way: follow the rules. "
Opinion
Chess
Me
" I always do something that I've never done before. "
Something
Before
Never
" I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children. "
You
Children
Help
" If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me. "
Me
People
Career
" If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart. "
Tends
Fall
Rationality
" If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power. "
Power
Someone
Stronger
" I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden. "
Up
Emotions
Home
" I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology. "
Technology
Almost
Film
" I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me. "
Saying
Know
Me
" I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive. "
Happy
Feel
Know
" I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life. "
Film
Life
Vacation
" I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful. "
Me
She
Way
" I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema. "
Cinema
Audience
Think
" It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films. "
Been
Lie
Always
" I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God. "
My Life
God
I Am
" More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all. "
Evil
Visual
More
" My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way. "
World
Lead
Man
" Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work. "
Say
Fear
You
" Political correctness kills discussion. "
Correctness
Discussion
Political
" That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them. "
Worry
About
Great
" When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me. "
Me
Everything
Film
" When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour. "
Humour
Film
Good
" When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music. "
Music
Myth
Younger
" You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance. "
Step
Work
You
" You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint. "
Care
Know
Political
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