We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
ORSON WELLESI’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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