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The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.

Orson Welles

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
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
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
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Choice Greatness Hate Love Myself People Respect
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
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
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’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’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
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
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.

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