Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
ORSON WELLESI’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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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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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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