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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.

Orson Welles

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 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
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
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time 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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
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 cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
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
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
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

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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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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