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.
ORSON WELLESA movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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