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

Orson Welles

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
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
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
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
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
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments
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 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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Life Live Money Myself Run Try
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint

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

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