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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.

Orson Welles

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
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
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
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
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
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
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
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
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
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’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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