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" When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends. "

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" Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. "

" The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. "

" I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. "

" Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! "

" 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. "

" Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. "

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

" The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer. "

" 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. "

" Gluttony is not a secret vice. "

" 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. "

" I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. "

" Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. "

" 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. "

" Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck. "

" I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time. "

" The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. "

" There were centuries when civilization had no theater. "

" People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas. "

" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "

" Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists. "

" I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows. "

" Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. "

" I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford. "

" 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. "

" Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. "

" My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. "

" I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world. "

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

" Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. "