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" You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. "
Werner Herzog
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" There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance. "
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" You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia. "
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" I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews. "
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" I think there are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground. "
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" I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks. "
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