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There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.

Orson Welles

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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
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
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Inspirational Motivational Possible Thinking
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
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
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
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
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
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
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

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