"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty."
"I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people."
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Source: Quoted in Earl Wilson, The Show Business Nobody Knows (1971)
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