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No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.

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The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

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Art is a sense of magic.

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There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

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We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

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I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

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Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception.

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Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'

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How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

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The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: January 14th, 1933

Died: March 9th, 2003

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