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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

Orson Welles

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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Artist Director Discover Success Talent World
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself
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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
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
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility
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 don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Audience Myself Thinking Understand World
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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Believe Discover Innocent Myself People Photograph Vision

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