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I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

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I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

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I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.

Jean-Pierre Melville Filmmaker

It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.

Jean-Pierre Melville Filmmaker

At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.

Jean-Pierre Melville Filmmaker

The incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth - reality is the fastest American commodity.

Aleksandar Hemon Writer

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Anita Desai Novelist

I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.

Anne Lamott Novelist

When you come into a movie theatre, there are no windows, you don't hear the sound outside and you're ready for fantasy.

Bertrand Bonello Film Director

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Billy Crudup Actor

I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.

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I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

Chelsea Manning Soldier

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