My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
ORSON WELLESI 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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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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’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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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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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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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