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"I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films."
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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
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"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."
"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."
"Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody."
"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."
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"In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio."
"Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints."
"When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries."
"Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has."
"And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."
"We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased."
"We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds."
"Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition."
"With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in."
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