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Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

Orson Welles

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Civilization Eat Impression Ourselves Relationship Woman
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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Camera Record World
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 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 have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
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 good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Expectation God Goodness Justice Kind People World
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
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
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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation

Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.

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