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"You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely."
"I never thought I was doing anyone a favour by bringing children into the world. With people as cruel to each other as they are, it's a terrible proposition. The best of lives are sad and tragic. The best of them. My general conclusion is that it's not a nice thing to do. The world doesn't need it. The kid doesn't need it."
"I hate the beach. I hate the sun. I'm pale and I'm redheaded. I don't tan - I stroke!"
"My Lord, my Lord! What hath Thou done lately?"
"Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest."
"I can't even make a leap of faith to believe in my own existence."
"If you aren't failing every now and then, you're probably playing it too safe."
"I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people and religious aspirations and mortality, existential themes that will be relevant a thousand years from now. When many of the things that are successful and trendy today will have been long relegated to musty-looking antiques, his stuff will still be great."
"One man starving puts a crimp in my evening."
"It's hard for me to know. I'll think, 'I really brought off my ideas, it's great,' and no one sparks to it"
"I have a great admiration for English actors and actresses and have used them at every opportunity over the years, but now I won't have to import them to New York."
"I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain."
"Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package. Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best."
"If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look at on the screen, the actors get a chance to sink their teeth into something substantial, and it's economically helpful."
"When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it's a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates."
"There are three things Jewish people worship-God, Chinese food and wall-to-wall carpeting."
"Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I could spend my days in the public library reading all the wonderful books at my disposal."
"It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?"
"In order to be successful, all you've got to do is show up 80 percent of the time."
"Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it."