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" I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell when I see them, but I don't know how to invent those jokes. "

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" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" I am not a visual innovator. "

" Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently. "

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

" All the movies I've made are essentially character-driven movies about people that I'm interested in. "

" People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego. "

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

" I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now. "

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

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

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

" When you're shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don't want accidents; you want to know exactly what's going to happen. But with a documentary, you don't, so you have to be sensitive to accidents because that is where the gold is. "

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

" Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy. "

" 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. "

" Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle. "

" At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again. "

" You are not an active creator of the film. "

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

" 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. "

" I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. "

" I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. "

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

" The essence to me of all good drama is argument. "

" I will not ever say that it's good to start with too little preparation, because that's patently not true. But I don't rehearse the way a lot of directors do, to stage a scene in terms of manners and attitudes and lock them in. "

" But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood. "

" 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. "

" Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field. "