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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Orson Welles

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 have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
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Choice Greatness Hate Love Myself People Respect
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Expression Ideal Perfection Reality
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
I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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Actor Camera Decision Myself Performance Place Script World
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
Criticism is the essence of creation.
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Creation Criticism One Liner
If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they’re talking.
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Food Myself Restaurant Talk Wait
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
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 director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
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
I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.
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Evidence Life Maturity Myself Responsibility
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
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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Alive Alone Born Creation Death Friendship Illusion Live Love Moments
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I’m always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as “looking like an unmade bed.” He was right!
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Fashion Funny Man Myself Right Worst
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
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Army Artist Movie Need Pen Writing
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Big Modesty Tough
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

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