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You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

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No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

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I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

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My parents allowed their two sons to be individuals. My family was a wild and wonderful place, with lots of friends and neighbors visiting and talking loud and eating loud and nobody telling the children to be quiet or putting them down.

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I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I don't think there's another director in the world who works harder to make better films than I do.

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I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.

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I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

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I hate entertainment.

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Commercial movies have no feeling, no sensitivity. Most people tell me people won't understand films with feeling. But everyone can feel.

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I think people are very stiff. Money makes people stiff, and we want it, and we have to pay the penalty. I never agreed with stiffness. I think people have an understanding of what their life is. I define success by being a realist and not humiliating people. I'm a revolutionary - but not in the political sense.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: December 9th, 1929

Died: February 3rd, 1989

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