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"I'm a lurid character!" "Cinema as a means of EXPRESSION fascinates me." "Hollywood is a gold plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things." "My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!" "There are a thousand ways of playing a good classic. If it were effective, I would play Hamlet on a trapeze." "Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan." -"Today I believe that man cannot escape his destiny to create whatever it is we make - jazz, a wooden spoon, or graffiti on the wall. All of these are expressions of man's creativity, proof that man has not yet been destroyed by technology. But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always to doubt the importance of the question." -" I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician." -"Nowadays, people's interest in motion pictures is restricted to wanting to know whether Veronica Lake's hair is all her own. I don't see how it could be." -"Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money." -" [The movies] make the sort of comment only a novel can make, an allusion to the world in which people live, the psychological and economic motivations, the influences of the period in which they lived." - "Criticism is the essence of creation." "Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him." "The trouble with a movie is that it's old before it's released. It's no accident that it comes in a can." "Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone." "Everybody denies that I am a genius-but nobody ever called me one." "When you are down and out something always turns up, and it is usually the noses of your friends." "Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except you never know when luxury is going to stand up." "They teach you anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies." "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It's just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." 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." "It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations." "If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture- it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!" "I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob." "There are three insupportable things in life, cold coffee, lukewarm champagne and an over-excited woman." "I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as 'looking like an unmade bed.' He was right!" "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." "Everything I do today took me 25 years!" "By nature, I am an experimentalist. I don't believe much in accomplishment." "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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