The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
ORSON WELLESNever 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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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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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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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 classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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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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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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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 movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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