Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
ORSON WELLESThere are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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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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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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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 started at the top and worked my way down.
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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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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’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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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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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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