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

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" We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. "

" 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. "

" If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. "

" When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't. "

" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "

" Gluttony is not a secret vice. "

" I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. "

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

" I don't pray because I don't want to bore God. "

" I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me. "

" Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. "

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

" 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. "

" Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. "

" A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong. "

" Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. "

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

" 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. "

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

" There were centuries when civilization had no theater. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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