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" There isn't a studio in the world that wouldn't burn half its soundstages to get a Tom Cruise movie. "

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" Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy. "

" If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years. "

" 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 learned that creativity is all about being frustrated. "

" There's no money in documentaries. "

" It's a terrible mistake when it gets to be a contest of egos. The actor is always going to win. If a director gets into a control situation and is overbearing, it's deadly. "

" 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 don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality. "

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

" I always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't. "

" There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic. "

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

" I hate to say it as a pejorative term, but I work for the Hollywood system for the most part. "

" Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Every time I am directing, I question why in God's name I'm doing it again. It's like hitting yourself in the forehead with a hammer. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" It's when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem. "

" From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do. "

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

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

" I like thrillers a lot. There's a lot of discipline connected to them. You can't be as freewheeling as you are with character pieces. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "