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

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" 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. "

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

" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "

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

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

" Gluttony is not a secret vice. "

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

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" The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. "

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

" Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. "

" The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. "

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

" 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. "

" People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas. "

" 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 know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind. "

" I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. "