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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

A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
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
I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.
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Hate Learning Myself Woman
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
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

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