An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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 have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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