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Orson Welles

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
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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History Philosophy Science Time
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
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
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
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
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
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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
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

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