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" Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up. "

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" As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless. "

" In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something. "

" Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. "

" I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible. "

" I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. "

" Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him. "

" I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time. "

" I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. "

" A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. "

" In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night. "

" There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. "

" I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it. "

" The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. "

" Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. "

" The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. "

" Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. "

" The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. "

" I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind. "

" I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians. "

" The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. "

" I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. "

" The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. "

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" I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world. "

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" I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. "