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Criticism is the essence of creation.

Orson Welles

Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
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
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
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
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
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
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
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
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
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
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 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
I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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Hate Learning Myself Woman

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