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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Orson Welles

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
Create your own visual style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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Creation Identity Style Unique Visual 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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
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
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
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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Actor Director Home Movie Play Respect World Worth
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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
Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God’s plan. Everybody thinks that if they don’t get it, they’re some kind of odd man out. And it’s not true. Nobody gets justice – people just get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Expectation God Goodness Justice Kind People World
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
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

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