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" I've always thought of Denys Finch Hatton as a combination of Hubbell Gardner from 'The Way We Were' and Jeremiah Johnson. He is this ultimate individualist. "

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

" I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people. "

" 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. "

" Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director. "

" I don't care much about acting. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There aren't rules in a romance, so they can be played any number of ways. "

" The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype. "

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

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

" I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part. "

" 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. "

" I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. "

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

" Everybody's trying to make blockbusters. "

" It's impossible for me to go into a room or look at a location without a part of my brain photographing it - picking the best angle or looking at the way the light hits. "

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

" Stars are like thoroughbreds. Yes, it's a little more dangerous with them. They are more temperamental. You have to be careful because you can be thrown. But when they do what they do best - whatever it is that's made them a star - it's really exciting. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor. "

" I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic air traffic controller. I just don't. I want a guy down there who's just waiting for the worst crash possible and petrified that it's going to happen on his watch. And then I feel safe flying into his territory. "

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

" By the time I'm done with a project, it's taken so long that I usually don't even like it anymore. I only see the things I wish I'd done differently. "