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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is w...  
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.  
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.  
Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet ...  
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.  
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about ...  
Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!  
Fake is as old as the Eden tree.  
Gluttony is not a secret vice.  
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which d...  
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think...  
I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.  
I don't say that we ought to all misbehave, but we ought to look as if...  
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we c...  
I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful ...  
I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eati...  
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect f...  
I have an unfortunate personality.  
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard a...  
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has a...  
I started at the top and worked my way down.  
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give...  
If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating ra...  
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop...  
In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murd...  
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon ...  
Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.  
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless the...  
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.  
Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just...  
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.  
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm...  
Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human na...  
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and l...  
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the dir...  
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.  
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle a...  
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamle...  
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, indi...  
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.  
The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever hear...  
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.  
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love a...  
When you are down and out something always turns up-and it is usually ...