Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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 film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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