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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.

Now I know I've got a heart, because it's breaking.

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.

If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

In the 1930s people went to see films not just to be entertained or to escape the dreariness of their workaday lives but to gain an education, to see the world, to learn table manners and interior decoration, how to dress, kiss, to laugh and cry, how to react to tragedy and happiness, how to be brave, evil and good.

It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.