54th Venice International Film Festival

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“I have been oranging and fat,
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allowing my cracked o’s to drop on the sea
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Over Maine I have rested.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They’re obliged to overstate their own importance.”
—François Truffaut (1932–1984)

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—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)