I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
ORSON WELLESThe director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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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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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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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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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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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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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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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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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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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 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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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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