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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

Orson Welles

I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Audience Myself Thinking Understand World
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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
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
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
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
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
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
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
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
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
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
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society

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