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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

Orson Welles

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
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
I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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Ego Movie Myself Understand
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
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
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Creation Identity Style Unique Visual Yourself
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
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
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
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

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