A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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 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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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