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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Orson Welles

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
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
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
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
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
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
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
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
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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Abuse Better Evil Freedom Hate Murder Personal Police Power See
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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End Forever Human Nature Original
I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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Believe Discover Innocent Myself People Photograph Vision
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
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
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
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility
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
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself

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