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" I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. "

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" I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. "

" I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind. "

" 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. "

" They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. "

" 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. "

" The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. "

" See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night. "

" 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. "

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

" I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.' "

" I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. "

" Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man. "

" 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. "

" People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas. "

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

" Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. "

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

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

" If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. "

" 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. "

" Gluttony is not a secret vice. "

" I would rather be on the set than doing anything. "