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" 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. "

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" What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time. "

" I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form. "

" I don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on. "

" I love having made a movie. "

" You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people. "

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" When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea. "

" You have to go by your instincts in casting. "

" 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. "

" American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific. "

" If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe you shouldn't go off and do what the world thinks of as more personal films with lesser-known people. But I think I've fooled everybody. I've made personal films all along. I just made them in another form. "

" I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. "

" I've spent most of my life trying to make actors comfortable, which I think is 90 percent of getting a good performance. "

" I'm not going to pretend to know one more thing than I know. "

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Know

" When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman. "

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