I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
ORSON WELLESI do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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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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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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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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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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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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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