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"I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all."
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"Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt."

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"I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways."

"I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on."

"I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew."

"It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily."

"Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was."

"Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this."

"I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak."

"The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits."
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