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The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.

Orson Welles

I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way 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
The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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Artist Director Discover Success Talent World
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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
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
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Inspirational Motivational Possible Thinking
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
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
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
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
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 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 don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song

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