I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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 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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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 good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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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 director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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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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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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 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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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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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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