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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Orson Welles

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
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
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
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
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
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
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
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself

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