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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.

Orson Welles

Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Dependent Election Fame Politics Popular
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
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
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
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
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
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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
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
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop

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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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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