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" Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.' "

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" I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth. "

" I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now. "

" 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, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people. "

" I don't care much about acting. "

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

" We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman. "

" I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people. "

" No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it. "

" When you're shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don't want accidents; you want to know exactly what's going to happen. But with a documentary, you don't, so you have to be sensitive to accidents because that is where the gold is. "

" Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not. "

" You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices. "

" It's when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem. "

" I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality. "

" No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. "

" The problem with filming something is that we struggle desperately to make three dimensions out of two dimensions. It can't be done. "

" My strength is with actors. I think I'm good at working with them to get the best performances, at seeing what it is that they have and that the story needs. "

" In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama. "

" I am not a visual innovator. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic. "

" 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. "

" I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic air traffic controller. I just don't. I want a guy down there who's just waiting for the worst crash possible and petrified that it's going to happen on his watch. And then I feel safe flying into his territory. "

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