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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

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
I don’t pray really, because I don’t want to bore God.
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Boredom God Prayer
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
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
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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Art Best Interview Myself
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
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
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Artist Himself Magic True
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Country Food Yourself
They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Education Funny Teaching University Wasted Time Yourself
A man is not from where he is born, but where he chooses to die.
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Born Choice Death Himself Man Philosophy
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
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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
There are three intolerable things in life – cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
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Drink Excitement Life Tolerance Woman
What’s happening now is what happened before, and often what’s going to happen again sometime or other.
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History Philosophy Science Time

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