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

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" 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. "

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

" I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard. "

" 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 learned that creativity is all about being frustrated. "

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

" The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype. "

" 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.' "

" Even if it's a thriller or a comedy, it's always a love story for me, and that's what I concentrate on, because the love stories are my surrogates for the argument: two people in conflict that see life differently. "

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

" Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time. "

" 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. "

" Everybody's trying to make blockbusters. "

" 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. "

" And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing. "

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

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

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

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

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

" It doesn't matter what I'm doing - I wish it was something else. If I'm producing, I wish I was directing. If I'm directing, I wish I was doing almost anything else! "

" 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. "

" South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" No country could claim to be civilized if its legal system weren't available to everyone in it. "

" 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. "