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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.

Orson Welles

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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Believe Discover Innocent Myself People Photograph Vision
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food 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
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
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
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
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
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
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
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
A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Bad Darkness Day Encouragement Need Ourselves Word
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
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
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Expectation God Goodness Justice Kind People World
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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Artist Director Discover Success Talent World
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
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

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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