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" Film is a collective experience, as you know. "

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" Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There are very few Westerns that have ever made really giant money. "

" If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe you shouldn't go off and do what the world thinks of as more personal films with lesser-known people. But I think I've fooled everybody. I've made personal films all along. I just made them in another form. "

" There's no money in documentaries. "

" I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites. "

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

" Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Like a lot of New Yorkers, I assumed that I knew all about the U.N. I was shocked to find out it's not like anything I had in mind. There are only six languages accepted there. It's considered international territory. "

" There aren't rules in a romance, so they can be played any number of ways. "

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

" South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.' "

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

" I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures. "

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

" Kubrick and I were pretty good friends. "

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" I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster. "