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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

- Warren Beatty
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I think I've been lucky enough not to have to do movie after movie after movie for financial reasons, so I've been able to live life and also make movies. I didn't have to grind them out. I could go long periods where I was living life rather than tripping over cables.

I think I've been lucky enough not to have to do movie after movie after movie for financial reasons, so I've been able to live life and also make movies. I didn't have to grind them out. I could go long periods where I was living life rather than tripping over cables.

I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.

By attracting attention to yourself, you distract people from the movie. Ideally, you like a movie to speak for itself. You don't describe a song before you sing it or tell about a painting before you show it. You don't reveal the recipe before you serve the dish. You taste it.

When I came to Hollywood, I would take the opportunity to get to know George Stevens or Willy Wyler or Billy Wilder or Freddie Zinnemann. David Lean I got to know, of course, in London. And David Selznick and Darryl Zanuck, not to mention Jack Warner, and Sam Goldwyn was actually very, very nice to me.

For years, Warner Bros. was trying to get me to make a movie about Howard Hughes.

If I had done some of the movies that I was offered as an actor - and very good movies, by the way, and some of them big moneymakers - I don't know that I ever would have taken what was the concentration or the time to do the movies that I produced. 'Reds' is a good example, but 'Shampoo' is also an example, and so was 'Heaven Can Wait.'

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.

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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.