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I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

Orson Welles

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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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself
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
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 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
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
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
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 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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Art Best Interview Myself
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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
Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Creation Identity Style Unique Visual Yourself
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck

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