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.
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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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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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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