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.
ORSON WELLESI have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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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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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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 prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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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 cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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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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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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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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