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" You hope that the responsibility of making movies will fall into the hands of essentially moral people. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Everybody's trying to make blockbusters. "

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

" I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood. "

" 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. "

" We progress by leaps and bounds technologically, medically - we can live longer, we can... but you know, in the year 1230, they knew as much as we know now about the human heart. "

" 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. "

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

" I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film. "

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