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" Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism. "

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" I knew I wasn't going to be any great shakes as an actor - the way I looked, I would play the soda jerk or the friend of a friend. "

" I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated. "

" The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype. "

" I don't care much about acting. "

" 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. "

" Kubrick and I were pretty good friends. "

" I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about. "

" Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies. "

" 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. "

" The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure. "

" From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do. "

" We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you know, in the year 1230, they knew as much as we know now about the human heart. "

" If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years. "

" I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part. "

" There isn't a studio in the world that wouldn't burn half its soundstages to get a Tom Cruise movie. "

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

" I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor. "

" It's hard for me to fall in love with a piece of material enough to want to direct it. "

" I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. "

" Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. "

" You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it. "

" 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. "

" You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie. "

" It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement. "