Deep down, all directors feel like frauds - because it's built into the nature of the job. You're the jack of all trades and the master of none. The cameraman knows the camera, the sound man knows the sound equipment - and you? You can't do anything: You can't do the acting, you can't dress the set, you don't record the sound or shoot the images.
I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous - or notorious - in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked 'Hudson Hawk.'
If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
Rereading one's own novels after many years is always a fraught business, but when a novel has fallen out of print - 'The Very Model of a Man' is the only novel of mine that has - and so crops up infrequently in conversations with readers or indeed with oneself, revisiting it can be perilous.
You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.
If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a great man.
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
Every boy in a free country ought to be instructed in boxing, wrestling, and the use of weapons. Every young man ought to be drilled. Every householder ought, at least, to have a right to own a rifle, and should know how to make cartridges.
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
A hungry man is not a free man.
Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
I've been a free man.
The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But I did my time, and today no one is more of a free man than Chuck Zito.
I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.
I consider myself a free man and a citizen of the world.
I am a free man. I feel at home everywhere in Europe.
