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

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" I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film. "

" It doesn't matter what I'm doing - I wish it was something else. If I'm producing, I wish I was directing. If I'm directing, I wish I was doing almost anything else! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility. "

" Stars are like thoroughbreds. Yes, it's a little more dangerous with them. They are more temperamental. You have to be careful because you can be thrown. But when they do what they do best - whatever it is that's made them a star - it's really exciting. "

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

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

" Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman? "

" You can't stop traffic on Times Square. "

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

" It's impossible for me to go into a room or look at a location without a part of my brain photographing it - picking the best angle or looking at the way the light hits. "

" There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer. "

" It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you're directing interferes with your concentration, and I wouldn't do that again. "

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

" I love having made a movie. "

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

" For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it. "

" People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand, with Paul Newman, with Al Pacino, with Sally Field, Jane Fonda, you work with all these people. Isn't this a problem? And it isn't a problem at all. It's terrific. It's great fun. And I don't know what the answer is. "

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

" I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life. "

" 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. "

" It's a terrible mistake when it gets to be a contest of egos. The actor is always going to win. If a director gets into a control situation and is overbearing, it's deadly. "

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

" If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they're really just human. "