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" What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn't work I don't feel I can put my finger on in a way I can learn from. "

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

" Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle. "

" 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. "

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

" I think a lot of creative people are uncomfortable with therapy. Because you're basically trying to 'solve' the unconscious. And the unconscious is where it all comes from. "

" I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've always thought of Denys Finch Hatton as a combination of Hubbell Gardner from 'The Way We Were' and Jeremiah Johnson. He is this ultimate individualist. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. "

" At some point during the filmmaking process, you lose objectivity, and you need the eyes of someone who understands the process and has been in the trenches. "

" 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. "

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

" The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure. "

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

" I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth. "

" 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. "