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compromise a subject that shouldn't be compromised.

I worked with Stanley Kramer

as my producer for about four months.

Kramer had me replaced

and the picture reedited to suit himself.

There is no way we could have

gotten along together under any circumstances.

I hate the son of a b*tch.

The philosophy ofhis film was that

retarded children are separate and alone...

and therefore should be in institutions

with others of their kind.

My film said that these children

could be anywhere, anytime.

One thing I learned

about the big studios

You can't please them and yourself

at the same time.

I will never make

another commercial film.

If I can, I will make films

with nonprofessionals-

people who can afford to dream

of a much bigger reward...

people who crave to take part

in something creative and...

don't know exactly what that is.

At the end of 1964, Faces was born...

out of friendships

and mutual dissatisfactions.

I was bugged about marriage-

the millions of middle-class marriages

in the United States thatjust...

sort of glide along.

Couples married 10 or 15 years...

husbands and wives

who seem to have everything.

But all these creature comforts

have made them passive.

Underneath, there's this feeling

of desperateness because they can't connect.

What's worse is most couples

aren't even aware they can't communicate.

The whole point of Faces is to show

how few people really talk to each other.

At the beginning, I had written a first draft

that was 250 pages long.

And that wasn't even half the film.

Then we decided to film everything.

Even if the film lasted 10 hours.

We shot for six full months.

So, Faces became more than a film.

It became a way oflife.

We had only $ 10,000 when we started,

and the film cost almost 200,000.

To get the money, I played parts

in five films during these three years.

I became an actor in order to finance

the films I wanted to make.

The story of Husbands

is very personal to me.

My older brother died

when he was 30 years old, so...

I know very well the effect

of the death of a loved one.

From the very beginning,

we made a pact...

that we would try to find whatever truth

was in ourselves and talk about that.

Sometimes the scenes would reflect things

that we wouldn't like to find out-

how idiotic we were, how little we had

to do with ourselves or how uptight we were.

We made the picture

as a feeling about men...

and how they won't give in

to the world they live in.

These three men are 40-year-old kids.

They're happy. They-

Theyjust do whatever they want to do.

It's our night out.

I wrote Minnie because I didn't think

that two people can get married anymore.

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