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.
ORSON WELLESCreate your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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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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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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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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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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 Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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