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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

Orson Welles

Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
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
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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Camera Record World
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
Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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Fools Husband Myself Personal Relationship
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
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Civilization Eat Impression Ourselves Relationship Woman
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Bad Exception Live Luxury Stand Yourself
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police

Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.

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