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- Jealous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about being an outsider... is that it teaches you to hear what people are thinking because you're constantly looking for the people who just don't give a damn.
- Fleeing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK, I got it. I know what's happening.'
- Joke
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- Nov 07, 2020
The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
It took me forever, learning improvisation, because I had studied with Lee Strasberg - I dropped out of Chicago and went to his classes in New York for a couple of years, once or twice a week. What I didn't realize was I was learning directing because he wasn't all that good about acting, not for me.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never understand when people say, 'Do you do comedy or tragedy?' I don't think they're very much different. They both have to be true, and there isn't a great play in the world that doesn't have funny parts to it - as 'Salesman' does, as 'King Lear' does. The whole idea is to reflect life in some way, which means surely you have to have both.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?
- Looking Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and all Fellini movies and like everybody else I loved John Ford. Then and now, I loved Preston Sturges, maybe above anyone.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.' It's a lesson in moviemaking.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a high school girlfriend whose mother gave us theater tickets, so I saw the second night performance of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' My girl and I could not get up during intermission, we were so stunned. To this day it's the only thing I've seen on stage that's 100 percent real and 100 percent poetic simultaneously.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Streetcar' is no longer about the moment at all. There is no Blanche DuBois anywhere; south, north, east or west. We don't have Blanche DuBois at the moment. But we have Willy Loman; everywhere we look we see Willy Loman. We are Willy Loman. We're on Facebook; we need to be known; we're selling all the time.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020