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I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.

Orson Welles

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
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Bad Exception Live Luxury Stand Yourself
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
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’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
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
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 movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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Expression Life Myself Philosophy Work
Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Creation Identity Style Unique Visual Yourself
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
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments

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