A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
ORSON WELLESNobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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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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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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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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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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