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

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" I don't care much about acting. "

" I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people. "

" 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. "

" You have to go by your instincts in casting. "

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

" When I work, I think mainly in terms of dramatic choices. "

" I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm not a writer myself, so I'm forced to try to get what's a sort of an odour or a colour or something I feel in my head from a writer, and that's a... I don't have a recipe for that process. I don't know what it is... it's different every time. "

" 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 was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money. "

" 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. "

" It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement. "

" I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would just be bored. I mean, I would do it, but it would be kind of boring. "

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

" 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. "

" You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people. "

" We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman. "

" Everybody's trying to make blockbusters. "

" Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies. "

" I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard. "

" Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you've got to get to it and get to it now - get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick. "

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

" 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 don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on. "

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

" I hate to say it as a pejorative term, but I work for the Hollywood system for the most part. "