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Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

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I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

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