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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.

Orson Welles

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.
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Hollywood Invention
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
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Appearance Attitude Audacity Behavior
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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Doctor Food Funny Myself People Stop
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Money Myself Remember Thinking Work
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
Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Death Myself Replacement Time Tree
If there hadn’t been women we’d still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Civilization Eat Impression Ourselves Relationship Woman
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train
An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
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Artist Himself Time
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
Don’t give them what you think they want. Give them what they never thought was possible.
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Inspirational Motivational Possible Thinking
I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
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Hate Kind Man Myself
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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Choice End Happiness Stop Story Yourself
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

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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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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