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I’ve spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I’m not irresponsible.

Orson Welles

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
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
I prefer people who rock the boat to people who jump out.
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Choice Myself People
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I’m profoundly convinced that that’s a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
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Appearance Believe Different Lie Myself Nation People Race Thinking True
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
Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.
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Abandonment Deep Hate Human Nature Race Wisdom
I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.
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Happiness Joy Kind Myself Person
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 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
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 cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.
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Boundary Dreams Movie Perspective
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Experiment Myself
The trouble with a movie is that it’s old before it’s released. It’s no accident that it comes in a can.
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Accident Movie Old Trouble
When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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Acceptance Break Law Normal People Society
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

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