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Orson Welles

What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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History Philosophy Science Time
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
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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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 classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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Gardener Gold Hollywood Movie Myself Stardom
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
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 man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People

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