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You'll See More Violence In Any Television Crime Series Than You Will In My Films Art Is There To Have A Stimulating Effect, If It Earns Its Name. You Have To Be Honest, That's The Only Thing.

I Think Watching A Movie That Simply Confirms My Feelings Is A Waste Of Time. That Applies Not Only To Movies, But Also To Books And Every Form Of Art.

Never Say No. It Always Depends On What's Possible. I Don't Care So Much Where It Is; It's What I Want To Do That Matters.

Well, The First Thing I Had To Do Was To Read A Lot. First Of All, About Education... And Looking At Education From The Middle Ages Right Through To The 20th Century. The Second Major Area Was Country Life In The 19th Century, Which I Don't Know Much About These Days.

The Difficulty, Then, Is When You Create A Church, An Institution, And You Create A Dogma. When You Create An Ideology, That's The Danger. Communism, Too, Is A Beautiful Idea, But Millions Of People Died When Communism Became An Ideology.