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I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.

Orson Welles

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.
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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food 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
Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
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 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
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
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
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
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 prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.

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