An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
ORSON WELLESA director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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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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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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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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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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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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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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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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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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