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‟ Before me, music soundtracks were sort of afterthoughts.
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‟ I've never been to film school. I had to leave this country to make a film. All they would let me do in Hollywood was be a messenger.
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‟ When I was in the Air Force, if I walked into a restaurant, in about eight or nine minutes the M.P.'s would show up and drag me out because someone had called saying that someone was impersonating an officer.
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‟ It wasn't really me who invented rap. I stole the idea from Aristide Bruant.
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‟ Don't ask me something if you don't want to know. Because I will tell you.
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‟ I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things.
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‟ I walk down the street; the garbagemen will shout at me, and we'll talk. That's a pleasure when people feel, 'If he can do it, I can, too.'
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‟ Me and modesty don't mix.
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‟ If I had to find one characteristic that is most symbolic of me, I think I am tenacious.
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‟ When I got to Paris, they welcomed me and showed my films. It was August of 1960, and I didn't have a penny in my pocket. But they had done something very dangerous: They had given me encouragement.
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‟ I was getting my Ph.D. in Holland - I speak Dutch - for a number of years before I moved to France because I had one of those offers you couldn't turn down. They offered me to come and do my films.
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