The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
ORSON WELLESIf 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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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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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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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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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 have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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