A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
ORSON WELLESEvery true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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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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