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

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" 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. "

" For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it. "

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

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

" What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't care much about acting. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" You can't stop traffic on Times Square. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated. "

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

" We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you know, in the year 1230, they knew as much as we know now about the human heart. "

" I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell when I see them, but I don't know how to invent those jokes. "

" 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. "