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I am not a visual innovator.
There's no money in documentaries.
Kubrick and I were pretty good friends.
You can't stop traffic on Times Square.
Everybody's trying to make blockbusters.
You are not an active creator of the film.
I am not a farceur. I am not Blake Edwards.
You have to go by your instincts in casting.
Film is a collective experience, as you know.
Compliments aren't really a journalistic angle.
The essence to me of all good drama is argument.
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
I haven't broken any new ground in the form of a film.
I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.
I learned that creativity is all about being frustrated.
I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies.
When I work, I think mainly in terms of dramatic choices.
Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.
If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.
When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.
I'm not going to pretend to know one more thing than I know.
I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth.
I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about.
Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
There are very few Westerns that have ever made really giant money.
The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype.
Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part.
There aren't rules in a romance, so they can be played any number of ways.
If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.
Obviously its a good feeling to know that something you've done has lasted.
People sense when you're pretending, when you're worried about your own ego.
When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman.
I don't get nervous talking about my films, but if I'm the subject, it's hard.
No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster.
It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn't have to make as much money.
The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.
Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time.
There's nothing wrong with crooks having lawyers. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer.
From almost the first time I stepped on a stage, I knew that was what I wanted to do.
I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama.
I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.
It's when the lawyers themselves become bad guys that you begin to have a serious problem.
South Bend is a nice town, but you know that phrase - 'I was homesick even when I was home.'
The essence of acting is seeing the world from another point of view. That's what acting is.