An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
ORSON WELLESA good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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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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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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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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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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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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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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