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ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're very kind. And I thank you.
From the time I did my first movie, I, needless to say, like everyone else,
started to fantasize about Oscar. And I was lucky enough to be nominated on the
first movie so I started to fantasize about the speech. And I was a real smart
aleck, and I thought I would say something like, "I don't want to thank anybody.
I did it alone." It wasn't true but I thought it would be a way of getting a
little attention.
When Frank Pierson called me about receiving this one,
of course I started thinking about the speech again. And I realized that if I
totaled up all the "thank yous" I've heard in all these years, I wouldn't be
able to thank all the people that I really want to. I'm not just talking about
the glorious talents I've worked with on both sides of the camera. But there are
so many with whom I've never even worked, that I owe so much.
I mean,
how do I thank Spielberg and Scorsese and Coppola? How do I thank Jean Vigo,
Carl Dreyer, Willy Wyler, and Kurosawa, and Buster Keaton? And I'm not
mentioning the ones I really stole from.
What about the Epsteins for
writing a line like, "Here's lookin' at you, kid"? Or Wilder and Diamond for,
"Well, nobody's perfect." Or Faragoh for, "Mother of god, is this the end of
Rico?" So, what I guess it comes down to, I'd like to thank the movies. I know
that sounds general. But it's very real to me. I've got the best job in the best
profession in the world. So, I just want to thank all of it. And, of course, the
ones who've paid more dues than I have. Thank you Piedy, Amy, Jenny. See you
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