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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore 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
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
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
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
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
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
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
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
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 ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
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
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

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