"The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can."
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"I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it."
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"I'm a lurid character!"
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"By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment."
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"I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners."
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"I don't take art as seriously as politics."
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"That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with "in" and emphasize it. Get me a jury and show me how you can say "In July" and I'll go down on you. That's just idiotic, if you'll forgive me for saying so. It's just stupid... "In July"; I'd love to know how you emphasize "In" in "In July". Impossible! Meaningless!"
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"I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me."
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"One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable."
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"In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain."
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"My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful."
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"I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. I mark only the happy hours, like the sundial, because otherwise I would have gone nuts."
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"I never make my mind up about anything at all, until it's over and done with."
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"I have no great message to the world."
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"In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one."
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"Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me."
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"I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind."
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"Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them."
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"The truth about any man can only be calculated by the sum of everything that has been said about him."
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"If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!"
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