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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."

"I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation."

"Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today."

"The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in."

"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."

"I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."
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"I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen."


"When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this."


"If you meet somebody who's spent any length of time in prison, you don't let your guard down. Ever. And really, that's what that was about-if you open up too much, you're asking to get your teeth kicked in."


"I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance."


"Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it."


"I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right."
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