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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

Orson Welles

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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 prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
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
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
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
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
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
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
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
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
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments

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