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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

Orson Welles

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
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet
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
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Bad Exception Live Luxury Stand Yourself
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
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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Believe Discover Innocent Myself People Photograph Vision
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
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
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
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
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

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