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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

Orson Welles

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
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.
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Camera Record World
When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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Friendship Hard Time Talk Yourself
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
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
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
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble
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
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

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