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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Orson Welles

The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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Camera Record World
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
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
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
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
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
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 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
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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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
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
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Expectation God Goodness Justice Kind People World
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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
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

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