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" The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow. "

" Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. "

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

" The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate. "

" If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. "

" 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. "

" We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. "

" Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited. "

" 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. "

" Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me. "

" If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio. "

" I would rather be on the set than doing anything. "

" Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers. "

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

" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "

" I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!' "

" The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer. "

" Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. "

" I started at the top and worked my way down. "

" 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. "

" When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. "

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

" Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. "

" I have an unfortunate personality. "

" They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. "

" Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists. "