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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

Orson Welles

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
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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
I’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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Ego Movie Myself Understand
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
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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Expression Life Myself Philosophy Work
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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Abuse Better Evil Freedom Hate Murder Personal Police Power See
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Bad Darkness Day Encouragement Need Ourselves Word
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
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner

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