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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Orson Welles

See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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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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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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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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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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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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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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If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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