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" It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money. "

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" It's when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem. "

" You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it. "

" If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture. "

" But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood. "

" 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. "

" Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle. "

" Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently. "

" 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. "

" I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would just be bored. I mean, I would do it, but it would be kind of boring. "

" I always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't. "

" 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. "

" What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn't work I don't feel I can put my finger on in a way I can learn from. "

" There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic. "

" I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth. "

" I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility. "

" I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster. "

" South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.' "

" I'm not going to pretend to know one more thing than I know. "

" The essence to me of all good drama is argument. "

" My strength is with actors. I think I'm good at working with them to get the best performances, at seeing what it is that they have and that the story needs. "

" I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality. "

" I hate to say it as a pejorative term, but I work for the Hollywood system for the most part. "

" When you're shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don't want accidents; you want to know exactly what's going to happen. But with a documentary, you don't, so you have to be sensitive to accidents because that is where the gold is. "

" We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you know, in the year 1230, they knew as much as we know now about the human heart. "

" Film is a collective experience, as you know. "

" There are very few Westerns that have ever made really giant money. "

" There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer. "

" When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea. "

" With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art. "