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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.

Orson Welles

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
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
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
I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Art Best Interview 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
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Amazing Crime Failure Money Problem Reality
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
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
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 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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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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