Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
ORSON WELLESHuman nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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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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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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