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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.

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
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
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
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
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
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 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
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong

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