A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
ORSON WELLESFuture shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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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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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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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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The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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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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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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