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" The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. "

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

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" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "

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

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" I don't pray because I don't want to bore God. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong. "

" If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them. "

" I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. "

" I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. "

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

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