Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
ORSON WELLESThe trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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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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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 doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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