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

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" I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" There were centuries when civilization had no theater. "

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

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" I have no great message to the world. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!' "

" Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. "

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