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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

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
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
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Choice Greatness Hate Love Myself People Respect
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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
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
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
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song

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