The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents. |
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. |
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. |
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. |
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. |
The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. |
The title is so good, you don't have to make the movie; just release the title. |
The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age. |
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. |
We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends |
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. |
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. |
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. |
When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends |
You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you. |