“They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.”
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“The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.”
“I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.”
“I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods.”
“The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.”
“I'm lucky to have so many supportive, inspirational people in my life.”
“My family especially has always taught me to be myself and not let other people's opinions change me. To always believe my instincts and follow my heart.”
“People always ask me, Do you ever think you'll wake up one morning and not be funny? That thought would never occur to me--it's an odd thought and not realistic. Because funny and me are not separate. We're one.”
“Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.”
“There are three things Jewish people worship-God, Chinese food and wall-to-wall carpeting.”
“You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent.”
“The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other.”
“When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.”
“Usually, you hire people that you think are wonderful.”
“In real life, Keaton believes in God. But she also believes that the radio works because there are tiny people inside it.”
“When a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You think: oh, nobody's going to ever speak to you again. But, it doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You know, they read it and they say "Oh, they hated your film." You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares.”
“You look up after many years and you find that a film has become a classic because it's meaningful to people and alive, decade after decade.”
“I've always been lucky in casting. The trick in casting is to hire great people, and let them do what they do, don't interfere with them too much. And then when they're great, take credit for it in the end.”
“No one ever wants the whole script. I give the whole script to people who require the whole script but to those people who don't require the whole script I don't give it to them and no one cares. They're relieved not to have to read extra pages that they're not in.”
“Throughout history in the theater and film people do like sarcastic characters, and they do like curmudgeons - if they're amusing, they do like them despite the fact that they're vitriolic, particularly if they're for the right thing. If you can see that the person is a decent person and is for the right thing, and is not just a nasty person with base motives, but someone who is a decent human but expresses himself.”