* "I don't know if this is a matter for the costume department or the hairdresser." -- Alfred Hitchcock, when replying to complaints from the crew that Tallulah Bankhead's habit of not wearing underpants was creating camera angle problems while shooting "Lifeboat".
* "I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction." -- Martin Scorsese
* "Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this." -- Martin Scorsese
* "All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography." -- Federico Fellini
* "Censorship is advertising paid by the government." -- Federico Fellini
* "I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it." -- Sarah Silverman
* "Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them." -- Marlene Dietrich
* "I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools." -- Al Pacino
* “Yeah, that's right; they were together. Someone put it very distinctly once to me when they thought Brando was the force, in a way, and the genius, and James Dean was kind of a sonnet, you know? And to describe Jimmy Dean as a sonnet — I feel it's really accurate.” -- Al Pacino
* "The world of celebrity has gone mad. It is very scary, because it happens when you are on a tightrope. You are up there, trying to make a part happen, when someone starts being difficult. This is not good. The whole thing is about trusting each other, as if we are in an orchestra trying to create good harmonies. But I am not going to name names. They know who they are." -- Al Pacino
* "To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it." -- Cary Grant
* "I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you." -- Ryan Gosling
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