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Television creates loneliness. This is why sitcoms have added laughter tracks which try to cheat you out of your solitude. Television is a reflection of the world in which we live, designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It kills spontaneous imagination and destroys our ability to entertain ourselves, painfully erasing our patience and sensitivity to significant detail.
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the notion of civilisation as a thin layer of ice resting upon a deep ocean of darkness and chaos,
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why." William Faulkner"
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In ancient Greek the word "chaos" means "gaping void" or "yawning emptiness." The most effective response to the chaos in our lives is the creation of new forms of literature, music, poetry, art and cinema."
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Even back in 1968, the first time I was at the Berlin Film Festival with one of my films, I found it ossified and suffocating. I felt the festival should be opened up to everyone and screen work in other cinemas around the city, so I took the initiative, got hold of some prints by young filmmakers and rented a cinema for a few days in Neukolln, a working-class suburb of Berlin, which at the time was populated largely by immigrants and stude..
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During the Second World War, Goebbels gave an order to all cameramen at the front: "The German soldier always attacks from left to right." That was it, no further explanation. Sure enough, if you look at old newsreels, the Germans always advance from the left to the right of the screen."
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speak a lively Spanish compared to formal Castilian Spanish, as if the conquest of the New World paralysed language back home, creating some kind of impasse that has yet to be overcome. When a language becomes immobile, unable to adapt, the culture that created it disappears into the abyss of history.
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It's possible to learn to play an instrument as an adult, but the intuitive qualities needed won't be there; the body needs to be conditioned from an early age. The same could be never said for filmmaking. A musician is made in childhood, but a filmmaker any time.
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Reactions to Even Dwarfs Started Small seem to depend on people's feelings about their inner dwarf.
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Unlike most people, I didn't have the privilege to choose my profession. I didn't even ask myself whether I could do it, I just pushed on with things.
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Today I look at Munich and see a city empty of all significance, invaded by Prussians and stripped of its Bavarian spirit.
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We will be blamed for having not thrown hand grenades into television stations and laying waste to their institutionalised cowardice, for not taking up arms and occupying such debased places which venerate that single, pernicious god: the Einschaltquote, the ratings.
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When it comes to the kind of filmmaking I do, the free market is a harsher but more vibrant structure to function within. It's where the real battle is fought. If you can leave the respirator and submit yourself to the roughness of the market, you should.
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The Catalogue of Dwarfs" from the Icelandic Poetic Edda, an extraordinary collection of Old Norse poems compiled in the fourteenth century and probably handed down, in the oral tradition, a thousand years earlier."
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