I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
ORSON WELLESMy kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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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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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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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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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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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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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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