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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

Orson Welles

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
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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 have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex
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
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
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
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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Fools Husband Myself Personal Relationship
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God

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