A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
ORSON WELLESI started at the top and worked my way down.
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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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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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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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