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

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" I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. "

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

" I love having made a movie. "

" Good actors aren't enough. You need charisma. Can you imagine 'Casablanca' without Bogart and Bergman? "

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

" 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. "

" You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself. "

" I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. "

" I learned everything, right or wrong, about honor and love, all those things, when I was a kid watching movies. I learned as much there as I did from my parents or my schooling or anything else. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't particularly want to go to a film to make me think, though I want it to be about something. "

" I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life. "

" When I work, I think mainly in terms of dramatic choices. "

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

" It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement. "

" I'm not a writer myself, so I'm forced to try to get what's a sort of an odour or a colour or something I feel in my head from a writer, and that's a... I don't have a recipe for that process. I don't know what it is... it's different every time. "

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

" What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn't work I don't feel I can put my finger on in a way I can learn from. "

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

" I guess all my films are about resolving conflicts - and they're all love stories. If they weren't, I couldn't make them. "

" I don't have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I admire enormously - Adrian Lyne, Ridley Scott, Alan Parker - in which every shot has a great idea in them. "

" Everybody's trying to make blockbusters. "

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

" When you rehearse a play, you spend four weeks with one goal in mind - to wean the actor away from you. You want the actor to become completely independent and to understand all the emotional and psychological moves within the character. "

" Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies. "

" I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid. "