The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
ORSON WELLESThe director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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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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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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