I have an unfortunate personality.
ORSON WELLESWhen people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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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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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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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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I’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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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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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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