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Criticism is the essence of creation.

Orson Welles

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
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
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 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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
I can think of nothing that an audience won’t understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Audience Myself Thinking Understand World
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
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 classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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End Forever Human Nature Original
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
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
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
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
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Civilization Eat Impression Ourselves Relationship Woman
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
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
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
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 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

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