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" You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again. "

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" A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually. "

" When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty. "

" We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food. "

" In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer. "

" I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while. "

" I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college. "

" I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it. "

" Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do. "

" They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family. "

" Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most. "

" It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again. "

" I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets. "

" My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. "

" Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal. "

" George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again. "

" I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. "

" When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget. "

" Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand. "

" I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant. "

" Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful. "

" You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost. "

" I like simplicity; I don't need luxury. "

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" I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement. "

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" I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school. "

" People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I've made, 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams. "

" When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.' "

" I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it's all a dream come true. "

" The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art. "