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" All the movies I've made are essentially character-driven movies about people that I'm interested in. "
Interested
People
Movies
" American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific. "
Quality
American
True
" And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. "
Knowing
Me
Real
" At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again. "
Back
Stand
Never
" At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone who understands the process and has been in the trenches. "
Process
Lose
Eyes
" Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time. "
Intense
Feel
Without
" Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.' "
Thought
Audience
Believe
" Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you've got to get to it and get to it now - get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick. "
Gun
Fast
You
" Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director. "
Becoming
Responsible
Me
" But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood. "
United States
Hollywood
Mexico
" By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. "
Politics
Political
Think
" By the time I'm done with a project, it's taken so long that I usually don't even like it anymore. I only see the things I wish I'd done differently. "
See
Wish
Long
" Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle. "
Journalistic
Really
Angle
" Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism. "
Terrorism
Film
Going
" Each time I make a movie, it's a little bit like taking another course in something because there's an argument between these people that I don't necessarily have an answer to. "
People
Time
Like
" Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently. "
Love
Me
Life
" Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.' "
Talk
Woman
Aunt
" Even with 'Three Days of the Condor,' I wanted to do a thriller. But I was still concentrating on the Faye Dunaway-Robert Redford relationship in that film. "
Days
Film
Relationship
" Everybody's trying to make blockbusters. "
Make
Blockbusters
Trying
" Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. "
Movies
Way
Single
" Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy. "
Needs
Story
Every
" Every time I am directing, I question why in God's name I'm doing it again. It's like hitting yourself in the forehead with a hammer. "
Name
Time
Yourself
" Film is a collective experience, as you know. "
Film
You
Collective
" For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would. "
Man
Years
Washington
" For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it. "
Obstacles
Love
Me
" From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do. "
Time
Almost
First Time
" Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman? "
Need
You
Without
" I always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't. "
Always
Craft
Go
" I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies. "
Cult
Hollywood
Movies
" I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards. "
I Am
Blake
Am
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