I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
ORSON WELLESParis 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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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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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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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just 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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