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" We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman. "

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" I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Film is a collective experience, as you know. "

" There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer. "

" 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. "

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

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

" All the movies I've made are essentially character-driven movies about people that I'm interested in. "

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

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

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

" By the time I'm done with a project, it's taken so long that I usually don't even like it anymore. I only see the things I wish I'd done differently. "

" 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. "

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

" People ask me over and over how is it that I work with stars. How do you work with Barbra Streisand, with Paul Newman, with Al Pacino, with Sally Field, Jane Fonda, you work with all these people. Isn't this a problem? And it isn't a problem at all. It's terrific. It's great fun. And I don't know what the answer is. "

" 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. "

" Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director. "

" It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Even with 'Three Days of the Condor,' I wanted to do a thriller. But I was still concentrating on the Faye Dunaway-Robert Redford relationship in that film. "

" 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 am not a visual innovator. "

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

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