The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
ORSON WELLESI’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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the 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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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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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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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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 have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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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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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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