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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Orson Welles

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
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 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’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
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
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
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
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
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.
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Dependent Election Fame Politics Popular
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
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Myself Start Way 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
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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

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