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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

Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Amazing Crime Failure Money Problem Reality
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
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
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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
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
Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.
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Gardener Gold Hollywood Movie Myself Stardom
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
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Dependent Election Fame Politics Popular

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