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“Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.”
“Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.”
“On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'”
“I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.”
“I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.”
“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.”
“Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.”
“The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.”
“I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.”
“You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.”
“I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.”
“The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.”
“Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists.”
“I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.”
“Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.”
“When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.”
“In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.”
“Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.”
“Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.”
“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.”