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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

Orson Welles

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
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
I have an unfortunate personality.
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One Liner Personality Unfortunate
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
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
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Artist Hate Himself Ideas Myself Passion Thinking Time
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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Live Murder Myself Philosophy Saint
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
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
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
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

I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

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