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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.

Orson Welles

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’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
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
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
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
Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Amazing Crime Failure Money Problem Reality
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 Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
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 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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