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.
From Orson Welles
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.
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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