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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.

Orson Welles

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
The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
I look back on my life and it’s 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It’s no way to live.
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Life Live Money Myself Run Try
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Inspirational Motivational Possible Thinking
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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
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
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
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
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
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

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