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.
ORSON WELLESThe enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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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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An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It’s only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
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Personally, I don’t like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she’ll fool her husband, I figure she’ll fool me.
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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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At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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