"Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody."

-- Michel Legrand

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“I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood.”
“I would not be able to change a sparking plug and I would not be able to fly a spaceship or build a rocket or whatever. But what I am good at doing is finding brilliant people and surrounding myself with brilliant people.”
“If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin.”
“One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.”
“He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”
“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
“It's me, it's my habit to perform live onstage every four, five years. In Italy, it's my habit.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. June 11, 2009.
“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The word "banal" sometimes rears its by-now banal head; you say "underedited," I say "derivative." The conversation goes around and around various literary criticisms, and by the time it moves on one thing is clear: No one read the book; we just read the reviews.”

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