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

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" 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. "

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

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

" From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do. "

" I learned everything, right or wrong, about honor and love, all those things, when I was a kid watching movies. I learned as much there as I did from my parents or my schooling or anything else. "

" American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific. "

" The problem with filming something is that we struggle desperately to make three dimensions out of two dimensions. It can't be done. "

" 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. "

" People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand, with Paul Newman, with Al Pacino, with Sally Field, Jane Fonda, you work with all these people. Isn't this a problem? And it isn't a problem at all. It's terrific. It's great fun. And I don't know what the answer is. "

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

" You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people. "

" 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. "

" I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites. "

" If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years. "

" I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid. "

" There's no money in documentaries. "

" Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism. "

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

" It's a terrible mistake when it gets to be a contest of egos. The actor is always going to win. If a director gets into a control situation and is overbearing, it's deadly. "

" Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.' "

" 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. "

" Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you've got to get to it and get to it now - get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick. "

" I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies. "

" 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. "

" By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. "

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

" I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards. "

" 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. "

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

" I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film. "