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" There aren't rules in a romance, so they can be played any number of ways. "

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

" I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth. "

" I don't care much about acting. "

" But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not 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. "

" You have to go by your instincts in casting. "

" You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices. "

" I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards. "

" Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you've got to get to it and get to it now - get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick. "

" 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 you make a film you usually make a film about an idea. "

" I've always thought of Denys Finch Hatton as a combination of Hubbell Gardner from 'The Way We Were' and Jeremiah Johnson. He is this ultimate individualist. "

" I don't know what the creative process is. I don't know how to trick it into starting or how to egg it on. "

" I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic air traffic controller. I just don't. I want a guy down there who's just waiting for the worst crash possible and petrified that it's going to happen on his watch. And then I feel safe flying into his territory. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" You can't stop traffic on Times Square. "

" I knew I wasn't going to be any great shakes as an actor - the way I looked, I would play the soda jerk or the friend of a friend. "

" The essence to me of all good drama is argument. "

" I am not a visual innovator. "

" I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure. "

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

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

" This thing called chemistry, which I can't define and wouldn't know how to, either works or it doesn't. Sometimes a love story can involve very talented actors, but we are not invested emotionally in whether they end up together. "

" If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture. "