A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
ORSON WELLESI’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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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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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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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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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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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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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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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