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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

Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Expectation God Goodness Justice Kind People 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
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
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Dependent Election Fame Politics Popular
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
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 classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
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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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train

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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