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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.

Orson Welles

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
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Easy Job Police
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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Care Confidence Equality Ignorance Professional Yourself
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
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 hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
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 movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
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
I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Act Audience Meaning Myself Work
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.
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Artist Director Discover Success Talent 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
Working is part of life, I don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Work is an expression of life.
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Expression Life Myself Philosophy Work
Crooks aren’t the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.
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People Stupidity World Worst

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