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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

Orson Welles

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
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
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 look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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Life Live Money Myself Run Try
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
I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World
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
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick 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
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner

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