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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

- Otto Preminger
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I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.

I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.

Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.

I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.