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I used to say that winning the Oscar means being back at the Beverly Hills Hotel at 1 A.M. feeling empty. It's the industry voting. It doesn't come from God. It doesn't change your life, really.

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'Catch-22' was a nightmare to make, and everybody was unhappy except me.

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I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

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Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian.

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For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

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Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

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Fear of comedy is all so much about who you do it with.

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I was standing right behind Marilyn, completely invisible, when she sang 'Happy birthday, Mr. President.' And indeed, the corny thing happened: Her dress split for my benefit, and there was Marilyn, and yes, indeed, she didn't wear any underwear.

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It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that.

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Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Director

Born: November 6th, 1931

Died: November 19th, 2014

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