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" They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. "

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" I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind. "

" A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong. "

" The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. "

" I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. "

" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "

" The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate. "

" I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me. "

" The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. "

" In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something. "

" I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them. "

" The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. "

" Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. "

" Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate. "

" Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. "

" I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. "

" At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. "

" I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. "

" Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. "

" I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. "

" Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited. "

" On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!' "

" As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless. "

" If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them. "

" The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow. "

" I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. "

" Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. "

" I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it. "

" Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. "

" Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. "

" If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. "