A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
ORSON WELLESI hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Criticism is the essence of creation.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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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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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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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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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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