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I crammed my exams in London and did fine.

I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.

I've finally gotten to a place where I can say, 'You know what? You didn't think I could do it, people.' But I did it.

The first think I did when I found out I was a finalist, was, I don't remember, because it felt like it was an out of body experience.

No, I did a film called 'Death and the Compass' as well.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.

I don't remember what I did fifty years ago.

I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.

I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.

It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.

If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did, let's face it.

I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood.

I did a couple of American Express commercials.

I don't want to expose the intricacies of my work so people can understand how I did it.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work.

Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.

Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.