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Orson Welles

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
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
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
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
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
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
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
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
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time

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