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People say they make movies to show what 'really happens.' But they only show what they choose to show.

I don't believe in publicity before a film is completed. It costs you money and wastes your energy, and you're inflating your balloon before you have a balloon.

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See, New York is over the hill. It's swallowed up in its own garbage. And the people - I can't stand the people.

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I am a Chicagoan. I feel like I've simply been on vacation for 10 years in Los Angeles. But Chicago is a real place, and L.A. is a motel.

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I was a sailor. I was torpedoed, spent two weeks in a lifeboat. I was on the Murmansk run; I worked a 20 mm. machine gun, helped bring down a Stuka, all that kind of stuff. I've got letters from Franklin Roosevelt for things I did then. But those kind of credentials didn't work for you in the Cold War.

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One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.

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When they speak about 'We the people...,' we the people have to have a voice. It can't just be the establishment voice.

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As a cameraman, I am interested in images and truth. Today, people are conditioned to accept lies if they are commercial lies. What we don't see anymore is ethics.

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I don't know why I developed a social consciousness, but I really think I have a consciousness; I feel connected to everything and everybody in the world.

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Making a film - particularly what I think is a good film - is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it.

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