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Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

Orson Welles

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
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
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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
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
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
Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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Fools Husband Myself Personal Relationship
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
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
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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing

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