I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Copy Quote View & ShareI don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
Copy Quote View & ShareAn actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.
Copy Quote View & ShareSo I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.
Copy Quote View & ShareHitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.
Copy Quote View & ShareA filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Copy Quote View & ShareEvery time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.
Copy Quote View & ShareI always loved silent movies. I was not a specialist, but I loved them. And when I started directing, I became really fascinated by the format - how it works, the device of the silent movie. It's not the same form of expression as a talkie. The lack of sounds makes you participate in the storytelling.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.
Copy Quote View & ShareMovies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
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