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I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!

Orson Welles

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
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.
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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
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
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
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
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
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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Expression Life Myself Philosophy Work
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself

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