I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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 director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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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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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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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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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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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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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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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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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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