The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
ORSON WELLESI hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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I have an unfortunate personality.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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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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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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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Future 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 Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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