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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Orson Welles

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
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
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
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
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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Life Live Money Myself Run Try
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
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
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
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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End Forever Human Nature Original
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
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
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

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