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You either care or you don’t.
The screen is a magic medium.
My reputation has grown slowly.
Everybody has their black moments.
Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.
How does anybody ever think of anything?
It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.
The best education in film is to make one
I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem
I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.
Take a stress pill and think things over-- HAL in 2001
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.
I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.
One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.
The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.
I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.
All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.
Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?
Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life nor cause life.
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.
Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.
Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.
You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent