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A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.

Orson Welles

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
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
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
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
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
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
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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
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
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
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’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.
ORSON WELLES

Drive Fast Myself Scare

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