"I love creating images, of course, because I'm an artist."
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"When a horse learns to buy martinis, I'll learn to like horses."
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"One of the things that make motorcycling so great is because it never fails to give you a feeling of freedom and adventure."
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"I worked hard, and if you work hard you get the goodies."
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"Stardom equals financial success and financial success equals security. I've spent too much of my life feeling insecure. I still have nightmares about being poor, of everything I own just vanishing away. Stardom means that can't happen."
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"Stardom equals freedom. It's the only equation that matters."
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"Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to."
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"When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting."
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"The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough."
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"I don't like to put too much effort into things. I find that once you get involved with special effects it is no longer about what is happening in front of the camera and I really want to concentrate on what is happening in front of the camera, like the man apparently peeing on the surface of the screen."
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"You see, I don't believe in that grabbin' and grabbin' and stuffin yourself and not givin' anythin' or puttin' it back."
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"I have difficulty putting words in peoples' mouths. The best dialogue is very, very thin dialogue; you let people improvise and then basically you record what they've improvised and then write it down."
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"I want people to do what they want to do because when they feel comfortable it seems to translate better on screen. It is when you put people in a straitjacket that it doesn't seem to translate very well at all. The individuals I work with are usually people I know."
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"I really don't like to act. At the beginning, back in '51, I had to force myself to stick with it. I was real uncomfortable, real uncomfortable."
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"I've got a feeling I'm leaving stardom behind, you know. I'm gradually becoming more of a filmmaker, acquiring a different kind of dignity from that which you achieve in acting. After all, I'm no matinee idol, and I'm getting older. I don't think I can be doing my kind of thing in the seventies; I want to be on more of the creative side of business."
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"The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time."
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"I think as an actor, you're more like a dancer, and you have to use your body. I don't understand all these questions about nudity. It's a nonsense. He's an actor, an artist, so get on with it."
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"I always feel I'm an amateur. I don't most of the time know what I'm doing."
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"I find it difficult to breathe when l'm in the space. There seems to be no oxygen. I want to put people into a situation where they're sensitive to themselves watching the piece."
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"As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing."
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