A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
JEAN COCTEAUA film is a petrified fountain of thought.
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The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.
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The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.
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Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
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Every day in the mirror I watch death at work.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.
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One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
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The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
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Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
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I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
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We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.
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Living is a horizontal fall.
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