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"And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble."
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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
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"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."
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"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."
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"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."
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"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"
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"I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies."
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"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."
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"I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot."
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"I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies."
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"And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble."
Movies
"Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films."
Opportunity
"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy."
Art
"And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world."
Now
"There arose a belief in style - and in banality. Banality encompassed politics, too, because it was a common belief that politics were not worthy of art."
Art
"In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is."
Art
"I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives."
People
"If I couldn't read, I couldn't live."
Reading
"My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life."
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"I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart."
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