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" Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. "
Orson Welles
Animal
Always
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" If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them. "
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" The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. "
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" In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something. "
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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'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately. "
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" A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong. "
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" Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. "
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" If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm. "
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Believe
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" Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited. "
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" If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. "
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You
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" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "
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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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" The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. "
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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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Depend
Politicians
" Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. "
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Anybody
Company
" 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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American
Television
" The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow. "
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Remember
Young
" The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. "
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Both
Form
" Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. "
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" I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it. "
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People
Face
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" When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society. "
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Society
Law
Accept
" I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible. "
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Mature
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" I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind. "
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" Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them. "
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" One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable. "
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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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" Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. "
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" I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me. "
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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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