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

Orson Welles

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
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
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
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
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
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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Life Live Money Myself Run Try
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
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
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
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
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
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
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer

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