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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

Orson Welles

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
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
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
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
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
I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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Hate Learning Myself Woman
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
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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Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity

I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

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I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.

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