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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.

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
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
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
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility
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
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
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
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 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
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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End Forever Human Nature Original
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself

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