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Hollywood is a gold-plated suburb suitable for golfers, gardeners, assorted middlemen, and contented movies stars. I am none of these things.

Orson Welles

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’ve never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies. Egotism and laziness. And they’re all lit like television shows.
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Ego Movie Myself Understand
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
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
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 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 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
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself

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