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Orson Welles

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Art Best Interview Myself
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
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
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
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
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing

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