I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
ORSON WELLESI’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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Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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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 film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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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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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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