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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.

Orson Welles

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 good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
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
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
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
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
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
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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 have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Art Best Interview Myself
The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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Artist Director Discover Success Talent 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
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself

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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