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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 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
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
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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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional 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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
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 say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
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’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
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
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 started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
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
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
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
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
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 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
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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
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
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
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

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