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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

Orson Welles

Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Art Best Interview Myself
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.
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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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Life Live Money Myself Run Try
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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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Drive Fast Myself Scare
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
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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Amazing Crime Failure Money Problem Reality
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble
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
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train

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