When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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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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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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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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