Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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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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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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