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As for showing the sexual act in film, I think that’s a lot of balls, phony, exploitative and commercial. It’s cheap voyeurism and I think there’s too damned much of it now anyway. It makes me very angry. If that makes me a prude, so be it. I think some things are private, and just as I wouldn’t sh…

It’s true that the women in my films are continuously being doublecrossed by men. They really are, and they recognize it. And my point of view in presenting it is, ‘All right. So what are you going to do about it? Are you going to put up a wall around you, or are you going to fight to protect some …

There is no real art in America other than business, and anyone who thinks that there is is crazy. People who are artistic and who are working for big companies are dead, are dead men. You can’t work for a big company and have any respect for yourself unless you’re out to make money. People plunge …

Women hated the picture, absolutely loathed the picture, with such a passion that it was unbelievable, simply because here were three men going off to London and not only having a sexual affair, but they were really out to fall in love with someone, and that was the ultimate disloyalty to the Ameri…

I’ve often been criticized for the unnecessary length of some of the
scenes in both Faces and Husbands. In some ways the length of the
scenes and duration of the shots are accidents in that they weren’t
planned before we actually shot them. But they are important to the
effect. I want to give t…