A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
ORSON WELLESNobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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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.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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