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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.

Orson Welles

Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
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
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
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Inspirational Motivational Possible Thinking
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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
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.
ORSON WELLES

Drive Fast Myself Scare
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
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
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
ORSON WELLES

Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
ORSON WELLES

Accident Director Job Series
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
ORSON WELLES

Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time

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