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A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

Orson Welles

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
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Dependent Election Fame Politics Popular
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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
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
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

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