I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
ORSON WELLESMy kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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 an unfortunate personality.
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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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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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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 don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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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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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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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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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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