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I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.

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You know, sound was still a fairly new thing when I came into movies. And the reason musicals happened is because of sound. They could put music in the picture! That's how it all began.

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What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

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I can still dance a little, yes, but I like singing better. It's more fun.

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What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.

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There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing little by little. Things change. We have to change with them. There's no point in liking or not liking it. It is what it is.

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It was very hard to make 'Funny Face' in Paris because making movies is difficult and making a movie in a city that was glorious, that was unique and surprising, to get it, to put it on film you have to make choices and reject a lot of things so you're always wondering: 'Am I doing it right?'

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What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

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Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.

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When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: April 13th, 1924

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