The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
ORSON WELLESCreate your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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