What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
ORSON WELLESParis 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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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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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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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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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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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 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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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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