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" Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Gluttony is not a secret vice. "

" Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. "

" The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. "

" Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. "

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

" See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks. "

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

" Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. "

" I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. "

" I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. "

" I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. "

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

" The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. "

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

" Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. "

" At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. "

" I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. "

" I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. "

" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "