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Orson Welles

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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Ego Movie Myself Understand
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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
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
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
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
Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
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
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
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
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself

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