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I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

Orson Welles

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.
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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 film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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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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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.
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Drive Fast Myself Scare
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
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
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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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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Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.
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Age Old Sick Yourself
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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