I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
ORSON WELLESCreate 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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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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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