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A picture should end as it has to. I don’t think anything in life ends “right.”
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The quote says that a picture should finish in the way its subject or story requires, rather than being forced into a neat or satisfying conclusion. The comparison with life adds a skeptical view of the word “right”: real endings often feel unfinished, imperfect, or simply unavoidable. A proper ending is therefore not necessarily a happy or orderly one.
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- Wellesnet, excerpting an interview from Charles Thomas Samuels’s Encountering Directors (1972)
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