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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.

Orson Welles

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
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
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
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’m one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour – and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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Drive Fast Myself Scare
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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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 who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
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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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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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Bad Game Goodness Hollywood Right True Yourself

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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