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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

Orson Welles

Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
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
I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World
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
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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
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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Bad Darkness Day Encouragement Need Ourselves Word
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism

Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

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