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

Orson Welles

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
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 have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
The most personal thing I’ve put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It’s better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
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Abuse Better Evil Freedom Hate Murder Personal Police Power See
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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Life Live Money Myself Run Try
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
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
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
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True

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