"It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations."
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"I never said I was a genius."
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"Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money."
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"There were centuries when civilization had no theater."
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"The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate."
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"Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited."
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"I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations."
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"I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions."
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"I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays."
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"Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers."
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"Why spend 18 hours watching someone else's war, when you know how it comes out? We win, and then have to buy all their cars."
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"A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had."
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"I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician."
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"You could write all the IDEAS of all the movies, my own included, on the head of a pin."
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"When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't."
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"Six years ago, I looked at a picture of the world's greatest newspaper men. I felt like a kid in front of a candy store. Well, tonight, six years later, I got my candy - all of it. Welcome, gentlemen, to the Inquirer! Make up an extra copy of that picture and send it to the Chronicle"
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"A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own."
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"As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect."
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"In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night."
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