Ugetsu
“You must put the odor of the human body into images... describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel... there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.” - Kenji Mizoguchi
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The Third Man
“Graham Greene was an alcoholic who abandoned his wife and two children for affairs with a series of married mistresses… a serial adulterer with at least 47 prostitutes…” - Michael Thornton
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Summertime
“I wouldn’t take the advice of a lot of so-called critics on how to shoot a close-up of a teapot.” - David Lean
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La Strada
“It’s easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.” - Federico Fellini
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The Spirit of the Beehive
“Erice reminds us of how much we have lost in a time when the rapture of cinema has fallen out of fashion.” - Paul Julian Smith
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The Seventh Seal
“He (Bergman) was our tunnel man building the aqueducts of our cinematic collective unconscious.” - Todd Field
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Seven Samurai
“Japanese films all tend to be rather bland in flavor, like green tea over rice. I think we ought to have richer foods, and richer films. So I thought I would make this kind of film entertaining enough to eat.” - Akira Kurosawa
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