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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

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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
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
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
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
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
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
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
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
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
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
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
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
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
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time
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
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
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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Expression Life Myself Philosophy Work
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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Audience Myself Thinking Understand World
Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Death Myself Replacement Time Tree

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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