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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

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
People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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Capacity Ideas Listening Lose People
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
Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.
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Alone Creation Friendship Illusion
I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional – and I hate every kind of snob.
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Appearance Fashion Hate Kind Love Myself Relationship
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
In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.
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Act Carry God Opinion Pray Sex
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
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
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
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Absence Art Enemy Limitation
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
The Godfather’ was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
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Existence Father Glory God
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
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
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
A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.
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Man Movie Production Train

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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