I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLESOur songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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I’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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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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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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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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I’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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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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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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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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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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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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