A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
ORSON WELLESI prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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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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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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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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