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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."

"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"

"Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house."

"There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever."

"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it."

"Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work."

"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film."

"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."
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