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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

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’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
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
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
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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Gardener Gold Hollywood Movie Myself Stardom
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
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
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
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself

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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