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" Kubrick and I were pretty good friends. "

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" For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would. "

" 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. "

" I guess all my films are about resolving conflicts - and they're all love stories. If they weren't, I couldn't make them. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 am not a visual innovator. "

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

" I've spent most of my life trying to make actors comfortable, which I think is 90 percent of getting a good performance. "

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

" 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 don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on. "

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

" At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone who understands the process and has been in the trenches. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I admire enormously - Adrian Lyne, Ridley Scott, Alan Parker - in which every shot has a great idea in them. "

" 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. "

" Like a lot of New Yorkers, I assumed that I knew all about the U.N. I was shocked to find out it's not like anything I had in mind. There are only six languages accepted there. It's considered international territory. "

" Even with 'Three Days of the Condor,' I wanted to do a thriller. But I was still concentrating on the Faye Dunaway-Robert Redford relationship in that film. "

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

" 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. "