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" I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid. "

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" Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field. "

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" I don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on. "

" I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people. "

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" And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. "

" No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did. "

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

" You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself. "

" I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form. "

" People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego. "

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" I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard. "

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" I will not ever say that it's good to start with too little preparation, because that's patently not true. But I don't rehearse the way a lot of directors do, to stage a scene in terms of manners and attitudes and lock them in. "

" From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do. "

" If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe you shouldn't go off and do what the world thinks of as more personal films with lesser-known people. But I think I've fooled everybody. I've made personal films all along. I just made them in another form. "

" I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures. "

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