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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.

Orson Welles

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
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
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
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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
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 writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Army Artist Movie Need Pen Writing
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Choice Greatness Hate Love Myself People Respect
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
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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Fools Husband Myself Personal Relationship
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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End Forever Human Nature Original

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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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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