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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

Orson Welles

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
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
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
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Bad Darkness Day Encouragement Need Ourselves Word
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
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 cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective

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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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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