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"When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures."
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"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."

"To get it doneand see it thru,find less to sayand more to do."

"The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference."

"Do what ought to be done, here and now, to get you somewhere - anywhere."

"You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away these turtle strategies! No waiting! No patience! Do whatever you want to do now! You have only 'now' in your hand to do something! You poor, slow man; you poor turtle man! Speed up! To speed up is the greatest revolution man needs!"
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"I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters."


"Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived."


"Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially."


"I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time."


"Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art."


"When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life."


"What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan."


"I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project."
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