I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
ORSON WELLESHollywood 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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Popularity 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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I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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