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

Orson Welles

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
ORSON WELLES

Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Choice Greatness Hate Love Myself People Respect
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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Believe Discover Innocent Myself People Photograph Vision
A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Bad Darkness Day Encouragement Need Ourselves Word
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
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
I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
ORSON WELLES

Hate Learning Myself Woman
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Art Best Interview Myself
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’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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Ego Movie Myself Understand
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
ORSON WELLES

Boredom God Prayer

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