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When you make the film, there\'s a big difference between when you\'re in your own home at the typewriter, and when you\'re standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it\'s a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates.

When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it's a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates.

There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

Believing would be easier if God would show himself by depositing a million dollars in a Swiss bank account in my name

We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

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Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third.

Twenty-one years ago, when I first heard Mia Farrow had accused me of child molestation, I found the idea so ludicrous I didn't give it a second thought. We were involved in a terribly acrimonious breakup, with great enmity between us and a custody battle slowly gathering energy. The self-serving transparency of her malevolence seemed so obvious I didn't even hire a lawyer to defend myself. It was my show business attorney who told me she was bringing the accusation to the police and I would need a criminal lawyer.

Some people want to achieve immortality through their works or their descendants. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

I don\'t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don\'t want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.

As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and the result could have always been better. You try again, and fail once more. In some ways I find it enjoyable. You never lose sight of your goal. I don’t do my job to make money or to break box office records, I simply try things out. What would happen if I were to achieve perfection at some point? What would I do then?

Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.

I've gained no wisdom, no insight, no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again, today.

If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right.

Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample sale?

I can live in Paris for four months or London or, you know, Barcelona. These are places that are like New York. But I don't think I could live in many places. When I had to make a film in the United States I picked San Francisco because to me it's one of the great cities of America.

American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.

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For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.

For some reason it gives people pleasure to equate the life of certain movie actors or actresses with their actual lives.

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