The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
ORSON WELLESParis 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 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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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 don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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