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" The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate. "

" If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio. "

" I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. "

" When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends. "

" Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up. "

" I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man. "

" I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians. "

" If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them. "

" When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. "

" Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! "

" I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible. "

" I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time. "

" Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. "

" A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. "

" I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. "

" I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. "

" As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless. "

" In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night. "

" Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. "

" If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm. "

" Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. "

" The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. "

" I don't pray because I don't want to bore God. "

" I have no great message to the world. "

" I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me. "

" I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately. "

" Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me. "

" My kind of director is an actor-director who writes. "

" Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists. "