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" 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. "

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" When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends. "

" I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. "

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

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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" 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. "

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