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

Orson Welles

When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
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
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
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
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
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
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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

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