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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians. "

" The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. "

" Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. "

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

" I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. "

" I have no great message to the world. "

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" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "

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

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

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

" I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. "

" 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 don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. "

" 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. "

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

" The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. "

" Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. "

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

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

" I never said I was a genius. "

" I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately. "

" 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. "