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Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

I do enjoy working with writers.

The End of the Affair is almost like a play.

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

If movies have to satisfy every possible quadrant before they're even made, they're dull. You only get great things when people overreach themselves.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

You are intelligent, you are diplomatic, you are beautiful, and you are and always will be ... [he kisses her] ... MINE ...

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

Nina felt an inordinate pleasure, a pleasure that seemed to creep up on her the way the mud oozed through her barefoot toes.

Don't you understand brother? I want to find a love ... that will free me from this love ...

And I think I often choose to do something because it's quite different from what I've done before.