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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.

Orson Welles

Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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Amazing Crime Failure Money Problem Reality
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
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
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
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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
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
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
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
Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing.
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Ourselves Silence Sing Song
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
A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.
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Accident Director Job Series
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.
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Boredom Emotion Terrorism
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself

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