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" 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. "
Orson Welles
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" 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. "
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" When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends. "
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" I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. "
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" I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. "
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" Gluttony is not a secret vice. "
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" I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. "
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" See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks. "
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" I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me. "
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" If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm. "
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" Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. "
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" I don't pray because I don't want to bore God. "
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" They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. "
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" Fake is as old as the Eden tree. "
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" The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. "
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" I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays. "
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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. "
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" I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately. "
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" I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.' "
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" If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio. "
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" The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism. "
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" The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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