Catherine Breillat quotes
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“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.”
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“Only conformists are ever adored.”
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“If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.”
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“If I stop making films, I will die. I can tell myself that one day I will stop living. But I cannot bear the fact that the day will come when I will no longer be making films.”
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“There is no masculine psychology in my cinema. There is only the resentments and desires of women. A man should not attempt to recognize himself in my male characters. On the other hand, he can find [in the films] a better understanding of women. And knowledge of the other is the highest goal.”
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“The problem is that censors create the concept of obscenity. By supposedly trying to protect us they form an absurd concept of what is obscene.”
-- Catherine BreillatSource : "The joy of sex" by Libby Brooks, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2001.
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“I know why I make films -cinema is a mode of expression that allows you to express all the nuances of a thing while including its opposites. These are things that can't be quantified mentally; yet they can exist and be juxtaposed. That may seem very contradictory. Cinema allows you to film these contradictions.”
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“Be what we make, and not who we are.”
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Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.411
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Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.87, Penguin
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Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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