The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.

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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

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Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

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In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

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At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

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Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

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There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art.

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These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.

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But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

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If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

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