Actually his ideas about nature were rather insipid. Mosquitoes were not allowed in his jungle, nor was rain.
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You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.
Permalink to quote #62 He was a pestilence every day... but who cares? I mean, what remains is the film. ... There has never been a man in cinema who had such a presence, such a fero…
Permalink to quote #64 We are surrounded by worn-out images, and we deserve new ones.
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