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" Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. "

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" The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. "

" There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. "

" I would rather be on the set than doing anything. "

" 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. "

" I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. "

" I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. "

" Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. "

" I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world. "

" I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. "

" Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. "

" In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something. "

" Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. "

" Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. "

" My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful. "

" I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go. "

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

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

" If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. "

" When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't. "

" I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it. "

" I never said I was a genius. "

" I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. "

" They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. "

" The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. "