I started at the top and worked my way down.
ORSON WELLESI 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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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 have an unfortunate personality.
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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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 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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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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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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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