I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.
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For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately.
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I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.
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It is just that all my life I have been so involved in my work that I guess one could say in general that, whenever I had to balance my private life and my profession, my profession always won out.
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Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.
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In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.
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I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.
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You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.
