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

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

" If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they're really just human. "

" We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you know, in the year 1230, they knew as much as we know now about the human heart. "

" 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. "

" Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism. "

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

" I do have a responsibility, but I would make the most boring films in the world if I woke up every morning worrying about my social responsibility. "

" I'm not going to pretend to know one more thing than I know. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's impossible for me to go into a room or look at a location without a part of my brain photographing it - picking the best angle or looking at the way the light hits. "

" 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. "

" In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama. "

" I will not ever say that it's good to start with too little preparation, because that's patently not true. But I don't rehearse the way a lot of directors do, to stage a scene in terms of manners and attitudes and lock them in. "

" I've spent most of my life trying to make actors comfortable, which I think is 90 percent of getting a good performance. "

" 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. "

" I don't care much about acting. "

" 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. "

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

" If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe you shouldn't go off and do what the world thinks of as more personal films with lesser-known people. But I think I've fooled everybody. I've made personal films all along. I just made them in another form. "

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

" You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie. "

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

" By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. "

" Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.' "

" Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie. "