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" I like thrillers a lot. There's a lot of discipline connected to them. You can't be as freewheeling as you are with character pieces. "

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

" 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. "

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" I've spent most of my life trying to make actors comfortable, which I think is 90 percent of getting a good performance. "

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

" Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director. "

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" I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth. "

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" When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea. "

" For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would. "

" 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. "

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

" At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone who understands the process and has been in the trenches. "

" You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices. "

" There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer. "

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" I think a lot of creative people are uncomfortable with therapy. Because you're basically trying to 'solve' the unconscious. And the unconscious is where it all comes from. "

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" By the time I'm done with a project, it's taken so long that I usually don't even like it anymore. I only see the things I wish I'd done differently. "

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" Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.' "

" 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. "

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