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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.

Orson Welles

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Army Artist Movie Need Pen Writing
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
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’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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History Philosophy Science Time
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
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
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
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
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
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 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
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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Abuse Better Evil Freedom Hate Murder Personal Police Power See
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’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
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
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
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

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