A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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I 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’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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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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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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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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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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