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Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

Orson Welles

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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 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
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
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
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
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
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
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
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
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
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way Work
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
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
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
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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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Director Kind Myself Writing
Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It’s the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.
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Change Feeling Future Permanent Sick Time
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
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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
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
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.
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Audience Director Himself Job Simplicity
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
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

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