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Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

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
Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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Expression Life Myself Philosophy Work
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
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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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
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
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
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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