I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

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What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

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I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.

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France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

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Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

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Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.

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If there's anything I hate more than being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

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