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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.

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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This...

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I...

I never said I was a genius.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes...

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

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