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

Orson Welles

I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Audience Myself Thinking Understand World
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
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 have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Amazing Crime Failure Money Problem Reality
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
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Creation Identity Style Unique Visual Yourself
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
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
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
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
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
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
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
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
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 prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
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
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
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
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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Camera Record World

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