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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.

Orson Welles

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
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
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
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself
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
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
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
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
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
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself

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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