"The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows."

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Robert Bresson

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“When people are temperate in their behavior, in their lives, someone who is addictive or extreme or obsessive can't understand how people can just go through their lives in the middle, and people who are rational and balanced can't understand the opposite. I'm one who's in the extreme camp in almost every area of my life and I always have been. I've observed that I'm in a minority, but I never understand people who are measured.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the pastâ€”sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.”
“It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.”
“Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.
“A lot of American actors when they do Shakespeare put on a phoney English accent and it drives me crazy. You're always fighting against the idea that only the British know how to do Shakespeare.”
“Genuinely great humour recognises the world it's describing and yet we are also called into question by it. That's what great art should do. That's what great philosophy should do. The one thing about humour is that this is an everyday practice that does this.”
“If men should read these words, let them know that power is a heavy burden. Seek not to be bound by its chains.”
“You're limited to one image, but you can have 50 audio tracks. It's something you'd be foolish not to experiment with. So I'm also very interested in sound that happens offscreen. I think that's a way to expand the scope of the movie. And it's all very planned out from the script stage. For me, sound design is a major part of the narrative. I think that's what makes working with certain people on the producer level difficult.”

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