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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

Orson Welles

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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Camera Record World
Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Creation Identity Style Unique Visual Yourself
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Audience Myself Thinking Understand World
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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Artist Director Discover Success Talent World
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Army Artist Movie Need Pen Writing
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

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