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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
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
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
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet
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
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.
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Believe Discover Innocent Myself People Photograph Vision
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
Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself

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