- Lee Strasberg ruined an entire generation of actors with that sense memory crap.
- There hasn't been much of a market for what I can do. I'm not into outer space epics or youth pictures.
- [on Hurd Hatfield] America's least known great actor.
- [1982 comment on Steven Spielberg] The movies have changed: there's now this wonderful storyteller Spielberg making benign movies that are enormously successful, while I'm known mainly for making movies about people shooting and cutting each other up. I love his work, but I could never make stuff like that.
- [on acting] A look, a simple look, will do it.
- [on Bonnie and Clyde (1967)] I thought that if were going to show this (violence), we should SHOW it. We should show what it looks like when somebody gets shot. TV coverage of Vietnam was every bit, perhaps even more, bloody than what we were showing on film.
- A society would be wise to pay attention to the people who do not belong if it wants to find out ... where it's failing.
- [on Jean-Luc Godard, 1970] That kind of passion I can't deny, and, as I say, it is brilliantly and artfully done, but I want far more, somehow, in a film, although I can view a film like "Weekend" with awe at the skills, the downright boldness of the man, the outrageous boldness which is a quality I would give a good deal to have more of. But, oh, I do long for a moment when that man comes out from behind his dark glasses!
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