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" It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement. "

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" Each time I make a movie, it's a little bit like taking another course in something because there's an argument between these people that I don't necessarily have an answer to. "

" Every time I am directing, I question why in God's name I'm doing it again. It's like hitting yourself in the forehead with a hammer. "

" 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. "

" At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again. "

" Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. "

" 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. "

" I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. "

" I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about. "

" I'm not a writer myself, so I'm forced to try to get what's a sort of an odour or a colour or something I feel in my head from a writer, and that's a... I don't have a recipe for that process. I don't know what it is... it's different every time. "

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

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

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

" Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time. "

" We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman. "

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

" It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you're directing interferes with your concentration, and I wouldn't do that again. "

" It doesn't matter what I'm doing - I wish it was something else. If I'm producing, I wish I was directing. If I'm directing, I wish I was doing almost anything else! "

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" I don't care much about acting. "

" I love having made a movie. "

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" I knew I wasn't going to be any great shakes as an actor - the way I looked, I would play the soda jerk or the friend of a friend. "

" You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie. "

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