Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
ORSON WELLESA writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I’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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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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