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

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" In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something. "

" Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up. "

" I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it. "

" The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. "

" I never said I was a genius. "

" Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists. "

" The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer. "

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

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

" If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio. "

" I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. "

" Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. "

" My kind of director is an actor-director who writes. "

" I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world. "

" 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. "

" I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately. "

" My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful. "

" Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. "

" Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. "

" The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow. "

" If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them. "

" Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. "

" The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. "

" Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. "

" The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate. "

" Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. "

" I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. "

" I have no great message to the world. "

" Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me. "