A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
ORSON WELLES
Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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 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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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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