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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

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
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
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
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 don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
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
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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Fools Husband Myself Personal Relationship
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
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 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
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
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick 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
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
Paris is the playwright’s delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor’s city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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History Philosophy Science Time
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
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
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity

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