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Orson Welles

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Army Artist Movie Need Pen Writing
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
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
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
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 you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself
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
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet
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
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
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
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
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
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
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
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

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