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A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.

Orson Welles

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 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
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
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
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 started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
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
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 ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
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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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Inspirational Motivational Possible Thinking
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
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself

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