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

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" The terrible tragedy for every director is to watch an actor do what you want and not have the camera rolling - and never get it back again. So I always try to roll the camera before anybody's really ready. "

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

" I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies. "

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

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

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

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

" People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego. "

" Beginnings and endings are not interesting; audiences want the high point, which means you've got to get to it and get to it now - get the gun out fast, the clothes off quick. "

" But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood. "

" I don't care much about acting. "

" I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites. "

" When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now. "

" When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman. "

" I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form. "

" For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 always go for the craft first because, to me, that's like an oil well - you either hit the oil or you don't. "

" 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. "

" Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. "

" I guess all my films are about resolving conflicts - and they're all love stories. If they weren't, I couldn't make them. "