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.
ORSON WELLESI hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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 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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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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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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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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