A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
ORSON WELLESI 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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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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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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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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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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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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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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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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