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- Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all…
- We're face-to-face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before. Young people need to understand that not all images…
- Basically, you make another movie, and another, and hopefully you feel good about every picture you make. And you say, 'My name is on that.…
- I’m not interested in a realistic look, not at all, not ever. Every film should look the way I feel.
- I look for a thematic idea running through my movies and I see that it's the outsider struggling for recognition. I realize that all my…
- When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a…
- I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that…
- I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the…
- Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the…
- I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that…
- All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.
- I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I…
- Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I…
- I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their…
- I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York…
- I think when you're young and have that first burst of energy and make five or six pictures in a row that tell the stories…
- One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle