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" The problem with filming something is that we struggle desperately to make three dimensions out of two dimensions. It can't be done. "

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" And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. "

" It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you're directing interferes with your concentration, and I wouldn't do that again. "

" There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer. "

" 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. "

" Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.' "

" American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific. "

" I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood. "

" I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now. "

" I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard. "

" I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part. "

" I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is. "

" I think a lot of creative people are uncomfortable with therapy. Because you're basically trying to 'solve' the unconscious. And the unconscious is where it all comes from. "

" The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego. "

" It's hard for me to fall in love with a piece of material enough to want to direct it. "

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

" I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures. "

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

" All the movies I've made are essentially character-driven movies about people that I'm interested in. "

" I love having made a movie. "

" 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. "

" Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle. "

" Stars are like thoroughbreds. Yes, it's a little more dangerous with them. They are more temperamental. You have to be careful because you can be thrown. But when they do what they do best - whatever it is that's made them a star - it's really exciting. "

" I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. "

" I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people. "