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The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

Orson Welles

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
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
I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Audience Myself Thinking Understand World
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’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 started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
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
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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End Forever Human Nature Original
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
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
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet

The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

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