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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

Orson Welles

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
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
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
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
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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Hate Learning Myself Woman
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong

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