"Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through."

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"Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through."

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"I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening."

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"I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures."

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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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"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."

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

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