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.
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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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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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 say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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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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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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 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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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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