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FDR used to say, 'You and I are the two best actors in America'.
I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
I have all the equipment to be a politician. Total shamelessness.
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.
Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment.
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with.
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin.
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.
Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.