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God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

The screen is a magic medium ...

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

Take a stress pill and think things over
HAL in 2001

Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

The best education in film is to make one

My reputation has grown slowly.

Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities?

Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines things.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it's our job to do it one better.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

I didn't want murder. It's all gone wrong.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

Everybody has their black moments.

If Gary Cooper and Henry Fonda had a baby, it would be Matthew Modine.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.

Observation is a dying art.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

A film needs more than you can give it in a lifetime.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.

I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.

I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

You either care or you don't.

You know, Michael, it's not absolutely true in every case that nobody likes a smart ass.

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.

I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.

How does anybody ever think of anything?

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.