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" I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. "

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" I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. "

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" I never said I was a genius. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. "

" If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm. "

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

" If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking. "

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

" I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. "

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

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" Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. "

" I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. "

" 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. "

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

" Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. "

" I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go. "

" The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. "

" Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. "

" 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. "

" I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. "

" The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. "

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

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

" I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. "