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" 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. "

Orson Welles

World

Nothing

I Can

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" My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. "

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" 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. "

" I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. "

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Gets

" If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends. "

" Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me. "

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Fool

She

" I have no great message to the world. "

" Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. "

" Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature. "

" In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night. "

" My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful. "

" 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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Miles

" Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. "

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Two

You

" The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer. "

" Film is like a colony and there are very few colonists. "

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Colonists

Very

" Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. "

" I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. "

" The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. "

" When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends. "

" Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. "

" Each multiplex has screens allocated to each studio. The screens need filling. Studios have to create product to fill their screen, and the amount of good product is limited. "

" I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind. "

" Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions. "

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Christmas

Tree

" The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room. "

" We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. "

" I never said I was a genius. "