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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

Orson Welles

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
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
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Camera Eyes Goodness Movie Poet
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself
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
A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.
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Bad Darkness Day Encouragement Need Ourselves Word
Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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Bad Goodness Justice Luck
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
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
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
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
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 classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing

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