Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
ORSON WELLESPopularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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