"One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that."
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"There's nothing creative about living within your means."
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"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
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"My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave."
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"Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry."
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"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
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"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend."
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"When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream."
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"Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love."
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"You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart."
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"It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening."
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"Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political."
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"There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can."
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"When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times."
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"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death."
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"Being an American means never having to say you're sorry."
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"It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior."
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"Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars."
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"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."
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"Movies are the art form most like man's imagination."
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