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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.

Orson Welles

The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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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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The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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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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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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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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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.
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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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Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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