I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
ORSON WELLESI have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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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’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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 movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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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 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 want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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