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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.

Orson Welles

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
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
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
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.
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Artist Goodness Himself Wrong
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
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
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
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.
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Bad Exception Live Luxury Stand Yourself
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
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Age Appearance Permanent
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
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
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
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

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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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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