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Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.

Orson Welles

The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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History Philosophy Science Time
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
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
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
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 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
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
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
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Dependent Election Fame Politics Popular
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing

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